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Common terms and phrasesaccording activity actual admit appear application apprehended arise Aristotle assertion assume assumption attempt Becoming cause Chapter Chaptrr complete conceive conception connexion consciousness consequence consists constituted copula course definite definite series determined direction distinguished dition doubt effect elements empty enquiry equally essence existence experience explain expression external fact force further given Hegel Heraclitus Herbart idea identical impossible independent infinite infinite divisibility inner intelligible Kant law of Identity Leibnitz logical manifold matter means merely metaphysical mind's eye mode Monads Monism motion multiplicity nature necessity nexion object occurrence ontological ourselves perception pheno phenomena position possible predicates present principle principle of Identity produce question realisation reality reason reciprocal action recognise regard relation remains result sensation sense soul space spatial supposed supposition take place theory things thinkable thought tion truth uniform space unity universal whole Popular passagesPage 423 - Any comparison of two ideas, which ends by our finding their contents like or unlike, presupposes the absolutely indivisible unity of that which compares them... Page 423 - I should maintain, on the contrary, that such a mode of setting out involves a wilful departure from that which is actually given in experience. A mere sensation without a subject is nowhere to be met with as a fact. It is impossible to speak of a bare movement without thinking of the mass whose movement it is ; and it is just as impossible to conceive a sensation existing without the accompanying idea of that which has it, — or, rather, of that which feels it ; for this also is included in the... Page 432 - this general idealistic conviction; that every created thing will continue, if and so long as its continuance belongs to the meaning of the world; that everything will pass away which had its authorised place only in a transitory phase of the world's course. That this principle admits of no further application in human hands hardly needs to be mentioned. We certainly do not know the merits which may give to one existence a claim to eternity, nor the defects which deny it to others 1 . Page 430 - so far as and so long as the soul knows itself as this identical subject, it is, and is named, simply for that reason, substance. The attempt to find its capacity of thus knowing itself in the numerical unity of another underlying substance is not a process of reasoning which merely fails to reach an admissible aim ; it has no aim at all. That which is not only conceived by others as unity in multiplicity, but knows and makes... Bibliographic information
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