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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... possible to state them in an unanswerable way . De Morgan and Mill seem to imagine that there is no difficulty left if motion be defined as " the passage of a thing from one place to another . " The question still remains unanswered ...
... possible to state them in an unanswerable way . De Morgan and Mill seem to imagine that there is no difficulty left if motion be defined as " the passage of a thing from one place to another . " The question still remains unanswered ...
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... possible equation 0 + 0 = 1 . It seems scarcely to be wondered at that scien- tific men , in their love of exactness and precision , shrink from committing themselves to what seem , at first sight , such cloud - born speculations ...
... possible equation 0 + 0 = 1 . It seems scarcely to be wondered at that scien- tific men , in their love of exactness and precision , shrink from committing themselves to what seem , at first sight , such cloud - born speculations ...
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... possible that vegetable life may result merely from a particular combination and loca- tion of the molecules of a body ; it is impossible that such combination or location can ever ac- count for sensibility , not to say intelligence ...
... possible that vegetable life may result merely from a particular combination and loca- tion of the molecules of a body ; it is impossible that such combination or location can ever ac- count for sensibility , not to say intelligence ...
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... possible ego , writers are obliged to resort to an impossible one . Mr Lewes in his first volume of the Problems , ' seems inclined to make the ego consist of a mass of " systemic " sensations - those , namely , of nutrition ...
... possible ego , writers are obliged to resort to an impossible one . Mr Lewes in his first volume of the Problems , ' seems inclined to make the ego consist of a mass of " systemic " sensations - those , namely , of nutrition ...
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... possible notion of cognition than the knowledge of something by some one : and hence a self is a necessary factor or foil in all cognition . It is true that " the cognition of the difference between sub- ject and object is only one of ...
... possible notion of cognition than the knowledge of something by some one : and hence a self is a necessary factor or foil in all cognition . It is true that " the cognition of the difference between sub- ject and object is only one of ...
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