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absolute according action appearances Aristotle attributes believe Bishop Berkeley body brain Cartesian causes cell certainly common conceive concrete constitutes deism Democritus Descartes distinct doctrine doubt dualistic realism energy evidence existence experience exposition external non ego external world facts of consciousness faith force function Hence Herbert Spencer Hume hypothesis images immediate inference infinite intelligence intuitive knowledge knowl knowledge known language laws Leibnitz material matter and mind mental metaphysics mind and matter nature nerve nervous nihilism non-ego noumenal intuition noumenon object ontology organism pantheism passage perceive perception phase phenomena philosophy physical Plato present principles Prof proof properties Pyrrho Pyrrhonists reason relation rience says sceptic sensation sense Sir William Hamilton Socrates soul speculation sphere spirit spontaneous substance substantial reality supposed theism Theistic realism things thought tion true truth ultimate unitarian realism universal proposition universe whilst Xenophanes
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Page 356 - ... all those bodies which compose the mighty frame of the world, have not any subsistence without a mind, that their being is to be perceived or known ; that consequently so long as they are not actually perceived by me, or do not exist in my mind or that of any other created spirit, they must either have no existence at all, or else subsist in the mind of some Eternal Spirit...
Page 356 - ... or figure, and it was perceived by sight or touch. This is all that I can understand by these and the like expressions. For as to what is said of the absolute existence of unthinking things without any relation to their being perceived, that seems perfectly unintelligible. Their esse is percipi, nor is it possible they should have any existence out of the minds or thinking things which perceive them.
Page 356 - The table I write on I say exists, that is I see and feel it, and if I were out of my study I should say it existed, meaning thereby that if I was in my study I might perceive it, or that some other spirit actually does perceive it.
Page 351 - The secrets of the hoary deep, a dark Illimitable ocean without bound, Without dimension; where length, breadth, and highth, And time and place are lost...
Page 356 - ... the ideas perceived by sense. Now for an idea to exist in an unperceiving thing, is a manifest contradiction; for to have an idea is all one as to perceive...
Page 345 - Here, then, I find myself absolutely and necessarily determined to live, and talk, and act like other people in the common affairs of life. But notwithstanding that my natural propensity, and the course of my animal spirits and passions reduce me to this indolent belief in the general maxims of the world...
Page 356 - It is indeed an opinion strangely prevailing amongst men, that houses, mountains, rivers, and in a word all sensible objects, have an existence, natural or real, distinct from their being perceived by the understanding. But, with how great an assurance and acquiescence soever this principle may be entertained in the world, yet whoever shall find in his heart to call it in question may, if I mistake not, perceive it to involve a manifest contradiction.
Page 331 - And though all the winds of doctrine were let loose to play upon the earth, so Truth be in the field, we do injuriously by licensing and prohibiting to misdoubt her strength. Let her and Falsehood grapple. Who ever knew Truth put to the worse, in a free and open encounter ? Her confuting is the best and surest suppressing.
Page 362 - And this brings us to the true conclusion implied throughout the foregoing pages — the conclusion that it is one and the same Ultimate Reality which is manifested to us subjectively and objectively. For while the nature of that which is manifested under either form proves to be inscrutable, the order of its manifestations throughout all mental phenomena proves to be the same as the order of its manifestations throughout all material phenomena.
Page 361 - The arguments for the two substances have, we believe, now entirely lost their validity : they are no longer compatible with ascertained science and clear thinking. The one substance, with two sets of properties, two sides, the physical and the mental, — a double-faced unity, — would appear to comply with all the exigencies of the case.