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... infer anything important as to them from any fact about ourselves . If there are living beings in Mars or in more distant parts of the universe , the same argument becomes even stronger . But further , perhaps the whole contents of the ...
... infer anything important as to them from any fact about ourselves . If there are living beings in Mars or in more distant parts of the universe , the same argument becomes even stronger . But further , perhaps the whole contents of the ...
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... inferred history is presumably untrue . If , on the other hand , we agree with M. Bergson in thinking that evolution took place as Darwin believed , then it is not only intellect , but all our faculties , that have been developed under ...
... inferred history is presumably untrue . If , on the other hand , we agree with M. Bergson in thinking that evolution took place as Darwin believed , then it is not only intellect , but all our faculties , that have been developed under ...
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... inferred merely from the principle that the universe must be logically self - consistent . I do not myself believe that from this principle alone anything of importance can be inferred as regards the existing universe . But , however ...
... inferred merely from the principle that the universe must be logically self - consistent . I do not myself believe that from this principle alone anything of importance can be inferred as regards the existing universe . But , however ...
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... infer , as others would , that there is a mistake some- where , but that they exhibit " identity in difference . " Again , Socrates is particular , " mortal " is universal . Therefore , he says , since Socrates is mortal , it follows ...
... infer , as others would , that there is a mistake some- where , but that they exhibit " identity in difference . " Again , Socrates is particular , " mortal " is universal . Therefore , he says , since Socrates is mortal , it follows ...
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... inferred from premisses no one of which is an atomic fact . It follows that , if atomic facts are to be known at all ... infer all truths of whatever form.1 Thus logic would then supply us with the whole of the apparatus required . But ...
... inferred from premisses no one of which is an atomic fact . It follows that , if atomic facts are to be known at all ... infer all truths of whatever form.1 Thus logic would then supply us with the whole of the apparatus required . But ...
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Page 12 - By intuition is meant the kind of intellectual sympathy by which one places oneself within an object in order to coincide with what is unique in it and consequently inexpressible.
Page 12 - There is one reality, at least, which we all seize from within, by intuition and not by simple analysis. It is our own personality in its flowing through time — our self which endures.
Page 156 - For thou canst not know what is not — that is impossible — nor utter it; for it is the same thing that can be thought and that can be.
Page 41 - The existing world consists of many things with many qualities and relations. A complete description of the existing world would require not only a catalogue of the things, but also a mention of all their qualities and relations.
Page 163 - Achilles must first reach the place from which the tortoise started. By that time the tortoise will have got on a little way. Achilles must then traverse that, and still the tortoise will be ahead. He is always coming nearer, but he never makes up to it.
Page 34 - If anything has a certain property, and whatever has this property has a certain other property, then the thing in question has the other property.
Page 157 - ... easier to feel than to state — in which time is an unimportant and superficial characteristic of reality. Past and future must be acknowledged to be as real as the present, and a certain emancipation from slavery to time is essential to philosophic thought.
Page 32 - The sun is hot," there is something in common in these three cases, something indicated by the word "is.