Personality: The Beginning and End of Metaphysics and a Necessary Assumption in All Positive PhilosophyW. Blackwood and Sons, 1883 - 130 pages |
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... Bain tells us that " the ego is a pure fiction , coined from nonentity : " and Mr John Morley is so anxious to show the absurdity of believing in , or even hoping for , a God , that he always writes the word with a small " g . " The ...
... Bain tells us that " the ego is a pure fiction , coined from nonentity : " and Mr John Morley is so anxious to show the absurdity of believing in , or even hoping for , a God , that he always writes the word with a small " g . " The ...
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... Bain , it is true , denies the universal application of this doctrine even in cognition . In his criticism on Ferrier , at the end of his Emotions and Will , ' he says : " I dissent from the placing of self as a factor or foil in all ...
... Bain , it is true , denies the universal application of this doctrine even in cognition . In his criticism on Ferrier , at the end of his Emotions and Will , ' he says : " I dissent from the placing of self as a factor or foil in all ...
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... Bain substi- tutes for Ferrier's postulate the following : " Along with whatever any intelligence knows , it must , as the ground or condition of its knowledge , have some cognisance of a quality in contrast with what is known ; " or ...
... Bain substi- tutes for Ferrier's postulate the following : " Along with whatever any intelligence knows , it must , as the ground or condition of its knowledge , have some cognisance of a quality in contrast with what is known ; " or ...
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... Bain introduces as of no account - is the real basis of knowledge , and ought to be taken into account quite as much as the qualities cognised . " I can know the light simply by transition to darkness . " Yes , if I exist , and have the ...
... Bain introduces as of no account - is the real basis of knowledge , and ought to be taken into account quite as much as the qualities cognised . " I can know the light simply by transition to darkness . " Yes , if I exist , and have the ...
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... Bain has done good service in insisting upon the essential relativity of knowledge ; but he forgets that two comparable qualities will not make knowledge without some one to compare them . " We are affected with surprise in passing from ...
... Bain has done good service in insisting upon the essential relativity of knowledge ; but he forgets that two comparable qualities will not make knowledge without some one to compare them . " We are affected with surprise in passing from ...
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