Basic Problems of Philosophy: Selected ReadingsDaniel J. Bronstein, Yervant Hovhannes Krikorian, Philip Paul Wiener |
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... mind . The given in experience is formless and chaotic and can enter into knowledge only by being transformed and ordered by the faculties of the mind . Far from be- ing a blank tablet on which experience writes ( Locke's view ) , the mind ...
... mind . The given in experience is formless and chaotic and can enter into knowledge only by being transformed and ordered by the faculties of the mind . Far from be- ing a blank tablet on which experience writes ( Locke's view ) , the mind ...
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... mind . For Descartes there are two kinds of substances - matter and mind.1 And he defines sub- stance as " an existent thing which requires nothing but itself in order to exist . " The distinctive characteristic of matter is extension ...
... mind . For Descartes there are two kinds of substances - matter and mind.1 And he defines sub- stance as " an existent thing which requires nothing but itself in order to exist . " The distinctive characteristic of matter is extension ...
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... mind . If materialism means , as it is taken to mean , that there is nothing but matter and its forms , and that mind as something with a distinctive character of its own does not count in the system of things , which would be the same ...
... mind . If materialism means , as it is taken to mean , that there is nothing but matter and its forms , and that mind as something with a distinctive character of its own does not count in the system of things , which would be the same ...
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