Some Problems of Philosophy: A Beginning of an Introduction to PhilosophyLongmans, Green, and Company, 1911 - 236 pagina's |
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Some Problems of Philosophy: A Beginning of an Introduction to Philosophy William James Volledige weergave - 1911 |
Some Problems of Philosophy: A Beginning of an Introduction to Philosophy William James Volledige weergave - 1911 |
Some Problems of Philosophy: A Beginning of an Introduction to Philosophy William James Fragmentweergave - 1940 |
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absolute abstract Achilles activity amount Aristotle Bradley called causal cause cepts ceptual chap chapter Charles Renouvier conceived concepts concrete connection continuous defined definition Descartes effect elements empiricism empiricist ence eternal example existence explained F. C. S. Schiller F. H. Bradley fact feeling finite G. H. Lewes growing Hegel human Hume hypotheses idea ideal identical immediate infinite infinitum infinity intellectual intellectualist J. S. Mill Kant Kant's kind knowledge logic losophy mathematical matic matter means melioristic ment metaphysics mind monism nature never notion objects original particular perception perceptual experience perceptual flux phenomenal philoso philosophy physical Plato pluralism pluralistic possible pragmatic rule principle problem question rational rationalist real novelty reality relation Renouvier scholasticism seems sense sensible stand substance substitute successive supposed things thought tion translation treat truth unity universe whole word
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Pagina 122 - Suppose (what no one can deny possible) an intelligence without the help of external bodies, to be affected with the same train of sensations or ideas that you are, imprinted in the same order and with like vividness in his mind. I ask whether that intelligence hath not all the reason to believe the existence of corporeal substances, represented by his ideas, and exciting them in his mind, that you can possibly have for believing the same thing?
Pagina 197 - All events seem entirely loose and separate. One event follows another; but we never can observe any tie between them. They seem conjoined, but never connected. And as we can have no idea of...
Pagina 8 - It sees the familiar as if it were strange, and the strange as if it were familiar. It can take things up and lay them down again. Its mind is full of air that plays round every subject. It rouses us from our native dogmatic slumber and breaks up our caked prejudices. Historically it has always been a sort of fecundation of four different human interests — science, poetry, religion, and logic — by one another. It has sought by hard reasoning for results emotionally valuable. To have some contact...
Pagina 196 - ... between it and its supposed effect. The same difficulty occurs in contemplating the operations of mind on body, where we observe the motion of the latter to follow upon the volition of the former, but are not able to observe or conceive the tie which binds together the motion and volition, or the energy, by which the mind produces this effect.
Pagina 197 - But there is nothing in a number of instances, different from every single instance, which is supposed to be exactly similar; except only, that after a repetition of similar instances, the mind is carried by habit, upon the appearance of one event, to expect its usual attendant, and to believe that it will exist.
Pagina 51 - days," and "nights," "summers" and "winters." We say what each part of the sensible continuum is, and all these abstracted whats are concepts. The intellectual life of man consists almost wholly in his substitution of a conceptual order for the perceptual order in which his experience originally comes.
Pagina 198 - A CAUSE is an object precedent and contiguous to another, and so united with it, that the idea of the one determines the mind to form the idea of the other, and the impression of the one to form a more lively idea of the other.
Pagina 7 - stands for in America. Things can be taught in dry dogmatic ways or in a philosophic way. At a technical school a man may grow into a first-rate instrument for doing a certain job, but he may miss all the graciousness of mind suggested by the term liberal culture. He may remain a cad and not a gentleman, intellectually pinned down to his one narrow subject, literal, unable to suppose anything different from what he has seen, without imagination, atmosphere, or mental perspective.
Pagina 142 - A world working out an uncertain destiny, as the phenomenal world appears to be doing, is an intolerable idea to the rationalistic mind. Pluralism, on the other hand, is neither optimistic nor pessimistic, but melioristic, rather. The world, it thinks, may be saved, on condition that its parts shall do their best. But shipwreck in detail, or even on the whole, is among the open possibilities.
Pagina 73 - The strong bent of nature is seen in the proportion which this topic of personal relations usurps in the conversation of society. What do we wish to know of any worthy person so much as how he...