Basic Problems of Philosophy: Selected ReadingsDaniel J. Bronstein, Yervant Hovhannes Krikorian, Philip Paul Wiener |
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... qualities are colour , figure , motion , smell , taste , and such like , that is , the ideas perceived by sense . Now , for an idea to exist in an unperceiv- ing thing is a manifest contradiction ; for to have an idea is all one as to ...
... qualities are colour , figure , motion , smell , taste , and such like , that is , the ideas perceived by sense . Now , for an idea to exist in an unperceiv- ing thing is a manifest contradiction ; for to have an idea is all one as to ...
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... qualities conjoined with such secret powers : And when he says , Similar sensible qualities will always be conjoined with similar secret powers , he is not guilty of a tautology , nor are these propositions in any respect the same . You ...
... qualities conjoined with such secret powers : And when he says , Similar sensible qualities will always be conjoined with similar secret powers , he is not guilty of a tautology , nor are these propositions in any respect the same . You ...
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... qualities and ex- presses them in terms of primary qualities which in the end are terms of space and time . It does not , nor does it pretend to , remove the mystery of the secondary qualities , and in all its ex- planations it does but ...
... qualities and ex- presses them in terms of primary qualities which in the end are terms of space and time . It does not , nor does it pretend to , remove the mystery of the secondary qualities , and in all its ex- planations it does but ...
Contents
CHAPTER | 1 |
On the Improvement of the Understanding Benedict | 30 |
INTRODUCTION | 68 |
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