An Introduction to Systematic PhilosophyColumbia University Press, 1908 - 572 من الصفحات |
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الصفحة 198 - IT is evident to any one who takes a survey of the objects of human knowledge, that they are either ideas actually imprinted on the senses; or else such as are perceived by attending to the passions and operations of the mind; or lastly, ideas formed by help of memory and imagination— either compounding, dividing, or barely representing those originally perceived in the aforesaid ways.
الصفحة 199 - 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.
الصفحة 205 - From one year to another we see things in new lights. What was unreal has grown real, and what was exciting is insipid. The friends we used to care the world for are shrunken to shadows...
الصفحة 200 - But, say you, though the ideas themselves do not exist without the mind, yet there may be things like them, whereof they are copies or resemblances; which things exist without the mind, in an unthinking substance.
الصفحة 199 - Their esse is percipi; nor is it possible they should have any existence out of the minds or thinking things which perceive them.
الصفحة 522 - ... universe into two halves is made by each of us; and for each of us almost all of the interest attaches to one of the halves; but we all draw the line of division between them in a different place. When I say that we all call the two halves by the same names, and that those names are 'me' and 'not-me' respectively, it will at once be seen what I mean.
الصفحة 198 - ... apple. Other collections of ideas constitute a stone, a tree, a book, and the like sensible things; which, as they are pleasing or disagreeable, excite the passions of love, hatred, joy, grief, and so forth.
الصفحة 494 - It is quite compatible with the principle of utility to recognize the fact, that some kinds of pleasure are more desirable and more valuable than \ others.
الصفحة 200 - ... there may be things like them whereof they are copies or resemblances, which things exist without the mind, in an unthinking substance. I answer, an idea can be like nothing but an idea ; a colour or figure can be like nothing but another colour or figure. If we look but ever so little into our thoughts, we shall find it impossible for us to conceive a likeness except only between our ideas.
الصفحة 200 - ... 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...