Sir William Hamilton: Being the Philosophy of Perception. An AnalysisLongmans, Green, and Company, 1865 - 124 páginas |
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... things continually rouse my admiration and delight . The whole book is colossal - a wonder of work . The style of it is unique in raciness , original force , and utterly unaffected prodigality of wealth -expository , ratiocinative ...
... things continually rouse my admiration and delight . The whole book is colossal - a wonder of work . The style of it is unique in raciness , original force , and utterly unaffected prodigality of wealth -expository , ratiocinative ...
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... things without . And , if this was the ob- ject of Reid , it was equally the object - with but few exceptions ... thing is known immedi- ately or proximately , when we cognise it in itself ; mediately or remotely , when we cognise it in ...
... things without . And , if this was the ob- ject of Reid , it was equally the object - with but few exceptions ... thing is known immedi- ately or proximately , when we cognise it in itself ; mediately or remotely , when we cognise it in ...
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... things we immediately perceive are the real things . ( Meta . i . 289. ) In perception we immediately know the external reality in its own qualities , as existing ... knowledge and existence convertible . . . the reality is known in ...
... things we immediately perceive are the real things . ( Meta . i . 289. ) In perception we immediately know the external reality in its own qualities , as existing ... knowledge and existence convertible . . . the reality is known in ...
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... things in themselves , and that these are known to him , only through a vicarious phe- nomenon , of which he is conscious in perception ; 6 6 Rerumque ignarus , imagine gaudet . ' ( Disc . p . 57 . ) * The last of these extracts adds ...
... things in themselves , and that these are known to him , only through a vicarious phe- nomenon , of which he is conscious in perception ; 6 6 Rerumque ignarus , imagine gaudet . ' ( Disc . p . 57 . ) * The last of these extracts adds ...
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... thing is known in itself , we mean only that it stands face to face , in direct and immediate relation to the conscious mind ; in other words , that , as existing , its phe- nomena form part of the circle of our knowledge , exist ...
... thing is known in itself , we mean only that it stands face to face , in direct and immediate relation to the conscious mind ; in other words , that , as existing , its phe- nomena form part of the circle of our knowledge , exist ...
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actually admirable affection analyse and discriminate analysis of philosophy apodictic appear apprehended Aristotle assert believe certainly cognition colour common sense conceive contradiction cosmothetic idealist criticism Disc doctrine doubt Dr Stirling Edinburgh Courant element essay evidence exist extension external reality extracts facts of consciousness faculties Hamil Hume immediate incognisable inference intuitive James Hutchison Stirling Julius Cæsar Kant Kant's knowledge known light logical membrane Meta metaphysical Micromégas modes modification nature nervous ness non-ego noumenalism noumenon once organism outer objects papillæ perceive perception proper phenomenal phenomenalist phenomenon PHILOSOPHY OF PERCEPTION posteriori present presentationism primary qualities principles priori Protagoras Protoplasm question quotations reader reason reference Reid Reid's relation representationist resistance Schwegler's sciousness secondary qualities Secret of Hegel sensation sensuous simple sion Sir William Hamilton space Stirling's subjective testimony of consciousness theory things thought tion touch true truth ultimate universal unknown whole wholly word
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Página 111 - 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 28 - To whatever I have said of you already, therefore, I now volunteer to add, that I think you not only the one man in Britain capable of bringing Metaphysical Philosophy, in the ultimate, German or European, and highest actual form of it. distinctly home to the understanding of British men who wish to understand it, but that I notice in you farther, on the moral side, a sound strength of intellectual discernment, a noble valour and reverence of mind, which seems to me to mark you out as the man capable...
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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 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 15 - Secret of Hegel.' Crown Svo, price 6s. " Schwegler's is the best possible handbook of the history of philosophy, and there could not possibly be a better translator of it than Dr. Stirling."— Westminster Review.