Lectures on Metaphysics and Logic
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Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: LECTURE IX. EXPLICATION OF TERMS ? RELATIVITY OP HUMAN KNOWLEDGE. After giving a definition of Psychology, or the Philosophy of Mind, in which I endeavored to comprise a Recapitulation. .; . / vanety of expressions, the explanation of which might smooth the way in our subsequent progress, I was engaged, during my last Lecture, in illustrating the principle, that all our knowledge of mind and matter is merely relative. We know, andl can know, nothing absolutely and in itself: all that we know is existence in certain special forms or modes, and these, likewise, only in so far as they may be analogous to our faculties. We may suppose existence to have a thousand modes; ? but these thousand modes are all to us as zero, unless we possess faculties accommodated to their apprehension. But were the number of our facul- 1 ties coextensive with the modes of being, ? had we, for each' of these thousand modes, a separate organ competent to make it known to us, ? still would our whole knowledge be, as it is at present, only of the relative. Of existence, absolutely and in itself, we should then be as ignorant as we are now. We should still apprehend existence only in certain special modes, ? only in certain relations to our faculties of knowledge. These relative modes, whether belonging to the world without or to the world within, are, under different points of view and different limitations, known under various names, as qualities, properties, essence, accidents, ptuenomena, manifestations, appearances, and so forth; ? whereas the unknown something of which they are the modes, ? the unknown ground, which affords them support, is usually termed their substance or subject. Of the signification and differences of these expressions, I stated only what was necessary in order to a...
| ISBN-13 | 9780217499842 |
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| ISBN-10 | 0217499848 |
| Weight | 2.06 Pounds |
| Dimensions | 9.00 x 6.00 x 1.42 In |
| List Price | $41.01 |
| Format | Paperback |
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| Pages | 644 pages |
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| Published On | 2009-08-01 |
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