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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... object of the sciences is laws , " he says ; " the object of metaphysics the laws of laws . Metaphysics is objective logic , or the logic of the cosmos , or the codification of the laws 4 PERSONALITY .
... object of the sciences is laws , " he says ; " the object of metaphysics the laws of laws . Metaphysics is objective logic , or the logic of the cosmos , or the codification of the laws 4 PERSONALITY .
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... objects , by a movement which the vous initiated , in the form of a self - perpetuat- ing vortex ? Plato started from the previously received ... object ) by the pútov eîdos , or first mover , at the other end , to take INTRODUCTION . 15.
... objects , by a movement which the vous initiated , in the form of a self - perpetuat- ing vortex ? Plato started from the previously received ... object ) by the pútov eîdos , or first mover , at the other end , to take INTRODUCTION . 15.
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... object , I give it a subject , namely , myself ; but in imagining a sensation not my own , I have to imagine it as subject plus object -that is , to give a subject to an object that has already a subject . In the one case there is ...
... object , I give it a subject , namely , myself ; but in imagining a sensation not my own , I have to imagine it as subject plus object -that is , to give a subject to an object that has already a subject . In the one case there is ...
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... objects into a psychical subject . The same may be said of Lewes's statement in ' Mind , ' that the term soul is the personification of the complex of present and revived feelings , and is the substratum of consciousness ( in his ...
... objects into a psychical subject . The same may be said of Lewes's statement in ' Mind , ' that the term soul is the personification of the complex of present and revived feelings , and is the substratum of consciousness ( in his ...
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... object , mind versus matter , internal and external . I maintain , however , that this is only one of the cognitions of the human mind , though a very commanding one . Things might have been known though the subject and object ...
... object , mind versus matter , internal and external . I maintain , however , that this is only one of the cognitions of the human mind , though a very commanding one . Things might have been known though the subject and object ...
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