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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... theory of ' representationism , ' or ' cosmo- thetic idealism , ' his own creed of ' presentationism , ' or ' natural realism , ' ' natural dualism . ' This , indeed , is the information of the very first step in Hamilton -information ...
... theory of ' representationism , ' or ' cosmo- thetic idealism , ' his own creed of ' presentationism , ' or ' natural realism , ' ' natural dualism . ' This , indeed , is the information of the very first step in Hamilton -information ...
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... theory , however , you have been contradictory , misintelligent , imperfect , incom- plete , and you still want - possess not a thread of never attained to a glimpse of a thread of the inner- most net of all , that fine net of the ...
... theory , however , you have been contradictory , misintelligent , imperfect , incom- plete , and you still want - possess not a thread of never attained to a glimpse of a thread of the inner- most net of all , that fine net of the ...
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... cipher of the apparent result would bid us still despair . But , be this as it may , let us see now , in effect , how Hamilton actually has acquitted • THE THEORY OF PERCEPTION . 69 himself of that 888 I. 3. PERCEPTION : THE SLÓTI . 68.
... cipher of the apparent result would bid us still despair . But , be this as it may , let us see now , in effect , how Hamilton actually has acquitted • THE THEORY OF PERCEPTION . 69 himself of that 888 I. 3. PERCEPTION : THE SLÓTI . 68.
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... Theory of Perception - a word which Hamilton now characteristically allows to reappear , instead of the consciousness in which he formerly sought to merge it . We premise the following quotations : -- The developed doctrine of Real ...
... Theory of Perception - a word which Hamilton now characteristically allows to reappear , instead of the consciousness in which he formerly sought to merge it . We premise the following quotations : -- The developed doctrine of Real ...
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... theory of Kant whereby they become externalised , materialised , realised , or , as Hamilton might say , objectivised - though their veritable source and seat be subjective , ideal , internal , all the same . It is from this ...
... theory of Kant whereby they become externalised , materialised , realised , or , as Hamilton might say , objectivised - though their veritable source and seat be subjective , ideal , internal , all the same . It is from this ...
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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.