Sir William Hamilton: Being the Philosophy of Perception : an AnalysisLongmans, Green, 1865 - 124 páginas The Statue of Liberty decides to roam the land and visit some of the people she has greeted upon their arrival in the United States, so she steps off her pedestal and takes a walk from sea to sea. |
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... perhaps , the very first in this country who has laboriously and patiently sounded Hegel . . . . Unlike any of the commentators of Hegel that we have yet seen , Mr. Stirling can always be understood by an intelligent and attentive ...
... perhaps , the very first in this country who has laboriously and patiently sounded Hegel . . . . Unlike any of the commentators of Hegel that we have yet seen , Mr. Stirling can always be understood by an intelligent and attentive ...
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... perhaps , to about a third of the whole . This part , however , is , so far as Hamilton's activity is concerned , the most important . It will , of itself , probably , suffice to justify , on the whole , the conclu- sions spoken of as ...
... perhaps , to about a third of the whole . This part , however , is , so far as Hamilton's activity is concerned , the most important . It will , of itself , probably , suffice to justify , on the whole , the conclu- sions spoken of as ...
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... perhaps , a generation ; and it is the remaining parts of my deduction that are , after all , the best fitted to demonstrate this , and establish grounds for any indignation which I may have been consequently led to express - though ...
... perhaps , a generation ; and it is the remaining parts of my deduction that are , after all , the best fitted to demonstrate this , and establish grounds for any indignation which I may have been consequently led to express - though ...
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... perhaps , give a mo- ment's pause . Firstly , the quotation from page 755 of Reid's Works asserts an immediate cognition of matter , while that from page 809 substitutes for matter the phenomena of the same ; and in this way the two ...
... perhaps , give a mo- ment's pause . Firstly , the quotation from page 755 of Reid's Works asserts an immediate cognition of matter , while that from page 809 substitutes for matter the phenomena of the same ; and in this way the two ...
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... perhaps , however small , the most characteristic and striking , as well as the most illustrative of the main one , is this : if , as is readily seen on reference to the preceding quotations , Hamilton , by way of coup de grâce ...
... perhaps , however small , the most characteristic and striking , as well as the most illustrative of the main one , is this : if , as is readily seen on reference to the preceding quotations , Hamilton , by way of coup de grâce ...
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actually admit affection analyse and discriminate analysis of philosophy apodictic appear apprehended Aristotle assert believe cognition colour common sense conceive constitutes cosmothetic idealist Disc doctrine doubt elements error evidence exist extension external reality extracts facts of consciousness faculties Hamil Hegel Hume immediate incognisable inference intuitive inviolable Julius Cæsar Kant Kant's space knowledge known light membrane Meta Micromégas mind and matter modes modification nature nervous ness noumenalism noumenon object of perception once organism original beliefs outer objects papillæ perception proper phenomenal phenomenalist phenomenon PHILOSOPHY OF PERCEPTION posteriori present presentationism primary qualities primary truths principles priori Protagoras quotations reason reference regards Reid Reid's relation relations of ideas relative representationist resistance sciousness secondary qualities SECRET OF HEGEL secundo-primary sensuous sight simple sion Sir William Hamilton subjective SUBORDINATE CONTRADICTIONS suppose testimony of consciousness theory things thought tion touch transcend true unknown whole wholly word
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Página 111 - Speaking of the perception of the external world — " We have here a remarkable conflict between two contradictory opinions, wherein all mankind are engaged. On the one side stand all the vulgar, who are unpractised in philosophical researches, and guided by the uncorrupted primary instincts of nature. On the other side, stand all the philosophers, ancient and modern ; every man, without exception, who reflects. In this division, to my great humiliation, I find myself classed with the vulgar.
Página 102 - it is truly an idle problem to attempt imagining the steps by which we may be supposed to have acquired the notion of extension ; when in fact we are unable to imagine to ourselves the possibility of that notion not being always in our possession.
Página 70 - S57b,sq.) 21. Nay, the Perception proper, accompanying a sensation proper, is not an apprehension, far less a representation, of the external or internal stimulus, or concause, which determines the affection whereof the sensation is the consciousness. —Not the former ; for the stimulus or concause of a sensation is always, in itself, to consciousness unknown. Not the latter; for this would turn Perception into Imagination — reduce it from an immediate, and assertory, and objective, into a mediate,...
Página 113 - In this country in particular, some of those who opposed it to the skeptical conclusions of Hume did not sufficiently counteract the notion which the name might naturally suggest ; they did not emphatically proclaim that it was no appeal to the undeveloped beliefs of the unreflective many ; and they did not inculcate that it presupposed a critical analysis of these beliefs by the philosophers themselves.
Página 119 - Propositions of this kind are discoverable by the mere operation of thought, without dependence on what is anywhere existent in the universe.
Página 72 - That the notion of space is a necessary condition of thought, and that, as such, it is impossible to derive it from experience, has been cogently demonstrated by Kant...
Página 8 - ... accidentally revealed to us through certain qualities related to our faculties of knowledge, and which qualities, again, we cannot think as unconditioned, irrelative, existent in and of themselves. All that we know is therefore phenomenal — phenomenal of the unknown.
Página 6 - The sum of our knowledge of the connection of mind and body is, therefore, this, — that the mental modifications are dependent on certain corporeal conditions ; but of the nature of these conditions we know nothing.
Página 84 - Thus a perception of the Primary qualities does not, originally and in itself, reveal to us the existence, and qualitative existence, of aught beyond the organism, apprehended by us as extended, figured, divided, &c.
Página 3 - An immediate cognition, inasmuch as the thing known is itself presented to observation, may be called a presentative; and inasmuch as the thing presented is, as it were, viewed by the mind face to face, may be called an intuitive cognition. A mediative cognition, inasmuch as the thing known is held up or mirrored to the mind in a vicarious representation, may be called a representative cognition.