Basic Problems of Philosophy: Selected ReadingsDaniel J. Bronstein, Yervant Hovhannes Krikorian, Philip Paul Wiener |
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... REALITY INTRODUCTION E ALL observe many facts and go through many experiences ; yet somehow we are not fully satisfied with isolated , piecemeal facts and experiences ; we wish to tie them together and thus arrive at some sense of them ...
... REALITY INTRODUCTION E ALL observe many facts and go through many experiences ; yet somehow we are not fully satisfied with isolated , piecemeal facts and experiences ; we wish to tie them together and thus arrive at some sense of them ...
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... reality at all ? For , after all , isn't this precisely what our analysis brings us to ? Nothing whatever can I say about my world yonder that I do not express in terms of mind . What things are , extended , mov- ing , colored , tuneful ...
... reality at all ? For , after all , isn't this precisely what our analysis brings us to ? Nothing whatever can I say about my world yonder that I do not express in terms of mind . What things are , extended , mov- ing , colored , tuneful ...
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... Reality which it seeks to describe . Thought must always be " about " its objects ; to speak metaphorically , it is a transcription of the whole of Reality into a medium which is itself one aspect of Reality . We are bound to think of ...
... Reality which it seeks to describe . Thought must always be " about " its objects ; to speak metaphorically , it is a transcription of the whole of Reality into a medium which is itself one aspect of Reality . We are bound to think of ...
Contents
CHAPTER | 1 |
On the Improvement of the Understanding Benedict | 30 |
INTRODUCTION | 68 |
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