Foundations of Western Thought: Six Major Philosophers. [Selection of Readings]James Gordon Clapp |
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... perceive by actual contact is perceptible by touch , a sense which we do possess , while whatever we perceive mediately and not by actual contact is perceptible by means of the elements , namely , air and water . And here are implied ...
... perceive by actual contact is perceptible by touch , a sense which we do possess , while whatever we perceive mediately and not by actual contact is perceptible by means of the elements , namely , air and water . And here are implied ...
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... perceive them in the same way as we now perceive sweetness by sight ( and this we do because we have a sense which perceives both , and by this we actually apprehend the two simultaneously when they oc- cur in conjunction ) . Otherwise ...
... perceive them in the same way as we now perceive sweetness by sight ( and this we do because we have a sense which perceives both , and by this we actually apprehend the two simultaneously when they oc- cur in conjunction ) . Otherwise ...
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... perceive the stars and moon , for example , to be a great way off ? Is not this , I say , manifest to the senses ? Philonous . Do you not in a dream too perceive those or the like objects ? Hylas . I do . Philonous . And have they not ...
... perceive the stars and moon , for example , to be a great way off ? Is not this , I say , manifest to the senses ? Philonous . Do you not in a dream too perceive those or the like objects ? Hylas . I do . Philonous . And have they not ...
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absolute action actually admit Agathon Alcibiades Anaxagoras animal appear argument Aristodemus Aristophanes Aristotle attributes body called categorical imperative cause Cebes certainly Cleanthes clearly colour conceive concept concerned consider contrary Crito David Hume definition Descartes desire distinct divine doubt earth Echecrates effect Eryximachus essence eternal exist experience fact faculty false feel formula happiness Hence honour human Hume Hylas ideas imagine impossible intellect intelligible judgment Kant kind knowledge mathematics matter mean merely metaphysics mind moral motion nature never not-being object opinion ousia pain particular perceive perception perfect Phaedo Phaedrus Philonous philosophers Plato pleasure possess possible potentially present principle priori pure reason qualities question rational regard replied scepticism sensation sense sensible things Simmias Socrates sort soul speak species Stranger substance suppose synthetic proposition term Theaetetus thought tion true truth understand universe virtue whole words