The World We Live in: Or, Philosophy and Life in the Light of Modern ThoughtMacmillan, 1912 - 293 páginas |
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absurd accept actually admit appearances atoms believe belong Berkeley Berkeley's body called Chapter Cloth color common sense conceive consciousness corpuscles creature Descartes distinction doctrine dreams duplicate world EDWARD BRADFORD TITCHENER ence Everybody's World existence external things external world eyes F. C. S. SCHILLER fact feel give given Hartenstein Ibid idealism idealist independent internal meaning JOSIAH ROYCE Kant Kant's known Lecture VII logical theorists MARY WHITON CALKINS material things mental phenomena Metaphysics mind nature never Nevertheless Noumena object ourselves panpsychist Parmenides perceive perception philosopher physical things physical world Pierre d'Ailly plain Pragmatism Pragmatist present psychical Psychology Pyrrho question Realist reality realm reason recognize referred reflect regarded relation rience seems sensations significance skeptic song space speak stand supposed sure system of things talk thing-in-itself thought tion truth Universe unreal whole wholly words World as Idea World as Phenomenon
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Página 37 - It is indeed an opinion strangely prevailing amongst men, that houses, mountains, rivers, and in a word all sensible objects, have an existence, natural or real, distinct from their being perceived by the understanding.
Página 56 - 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.
Página 38 - ... all those bodies which compose the mighty frame of the world, have not any subsistence without a mind—that their being is to be perceived or . known; that consequently so long as they are not actually perceived by me, or do not exist in my mind or that of any other created spirit, they must either have no existence at all, or else subsist in the mind of some Eternal...
Página 39 - When in broad daylight I open my eyes, it is not in my power to choose whether I shall see or no, or to determine what particular objects shall present themselves to my view...
Página 132 - The particular bulk, number, figure, and motion of the parts of fire or snow are really in them, whether any one's senses perceive them or no : and therefore they may be called real qualities, because they really exist in those bodies.
Página 51 - Wherever bodies are said to have no existence without the mind, I would not be understood to mean this or that particular mind, but all minds whatsoever. It does not therefore follow from the foregoing Principles that bodies are annihilated and created every moment, or exist not at all during the intervals between our perception of them.
Página 38 - I take this important one to be, viz., that all the choir of heaven and furniture of the earth, in a word all those bodies which compose the mighty frame of the world, have not any subsistence without a mind; that their being is to be perceived or known; that consequently so long as they are not actually perceived by me, or do not exist in my mind or that of any other created spirit, they must either have no existence at all, or else subsist in the mind of some Eternal Spirit...
Página 229 - All of us, I presume, more or less, are led beyond the region of ordinary facts. Some in one way and some in others, we seem to touch and have communion with what is beyond the visible world. In various manners we find something higher, which both supports and humbles, both chastens and transports us. And, with certain persons, the intellectual effort to understand the universe is a principal way of thus experiencing the Deity.
Página 39 - I find I can excite ideas in my mind at pleasure, and vary and shift the scene as oft as I think fit. It is no more than willing, and straightway this or that idea arises in my fancy; and by the same power it is obliterated and makes way for another.