Essays Towards a Theory of KnowledgeG. Routledge & sons, limited, 1915 - 120 من الصفحات |
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Absolute action actual affirmation Agnosticism Aristotle blind called cognitive faculty common conceived consciousness consists constantly definite derived Descartes Diderot discover distinction distinguish doctrine of Energy dualism dynamic system elements energetic system energetic transmutation essay essential exertional activity existence explain expression extension external world fact furnished gravity Heracleitus idea of Space ideal impression intellectual intelligence involved J. S. Mill Kant kinetic Knowledge laws Matter measurement merely Metaphysics Mind mutation necessarily never object operation organism origin palpation perception periodic law phenomenal world phenomenon Philosophy phonetic physical phenomena Plato postulate potential Energy primary qualities principle priori pure rational Discourse real substratum real thing realise Reality recognise reference regarded representations Schopenhauer Science scientific sense sense-experience sensible Experience sensible presentation Socrates spatial conceptions speculation stitute subjective suggestion tabula rasa theory tion trans transmutations occurring transmutations of Energy true truth universal vident Villey vision visual presentation Volition whilst whole καὶ
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الصفحة 17 - 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 17 - The answer I conceive to be, that this character of necessity, ascribed to the truths of mathematics and even (with some reservations to be hereafter made) the peculiar certainty attributed to them, is an illusion...
الصفحة 121 - ... stage where some existence embodies, or in any way presents in itself, a law and a principle. However, in the mere example and instance of an universal truth, the fact and the law are still essentially alien to each other, and the defective character of their union is plainly visible. Our standard moves us on towards an individual with laws of its own, and to laws which form the vital substance of a single existence.
الصفحة 17 - The points, lines, circles, and squares which any one has in his mind, are (I apprehend) simply copies of the points, lines, circles, and squares which he has known in his experience.
الصفحة 85 - Science has been reluctant to recognize that it is now entitled to dispense with the postulation of Matter. The theory, as announced by the leading men of science, has therefore been to the effect that there exist in the physical universe two real things — Matter and Energy — in place of one only, as commonly supposed for so long. We have elsewhere attempted to show that such a statement of scientific theory is erroneous and redundant ; that Science is not necessitated to postulate TWO such entities...
الصفحة 91 - I am in relation with the energetic system not merely or primarily as an Intelligence percipient of the transmutations proceeding in it at a particular point, but also as a Will initiative to some extent of such transmutations and capable of influencing and directing the physical process.
الصفحة 85 - Heat, Light, Sound, Force, are names of classes of phenomena, and the great discovery of Physics during the nineteenth century has been that these , are all transformable into each other, and bear ' definite numerical relations to each other in proportion to which such transformations take place. Science availing itself of this discovery, unifies its conception of Nature and gives expression to the doctrine of the inter-transmutability of the various classes of physical phenomena by postu' lating...
الصفحة 87 - ... the construction in our minds of the conception of Matter, and furnished us with the ideas of solidity, impenetrability, and weight which constitute its ground-work. Our view, therefore, is that the conception of materiality and of real Matter can, in the way just indicated, be in all cases...
الصفحة 86 - Energy supplies all her requirements ; and that the employment of that conception obviates the very serious contradictions which are involved in any assumption of a real entity of the nature of Matter as ordinarily understood — a conception of which the very description involves difficulties which have perplexed thinking men for more than two centuries. Our argument on this point involves consideration of the place occupied by Energy in a potential form. Whilst the transformability of Heat, Light,...
الصفحة 123 - ... ideality, of the spiritual. The apprehension, therefore, of the doctrine of Energy should accomplish in clarity and security the abolition of the intolerable contradictions which have hitherto involved the search for Reality amid its appearances. We think it suggests the most satisfying explanation of the distinction which separates, and the principle which relates Ideality and Externality, and should obviate the almost childish efforts of transcendentalists to expound the relation of the...