Proceedings of the Aristotelian Society for the Systematic Study of Philosophy, Volume 3Williams and Norgate, 1903 - Philosophy Contains the papers read at the Society's fortnightly meetings in London throughout the academic year, and short discussion notes on these papers. Papers are drawn from an international base of contributors and discuss issues across a broad range of philosophical traditions, including those which are of greatest current interest. |
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Page 125 - let us chase our imagination to the heavens, or to the utmost limits of the universe ; we never really advance a step beyond ourselves, nor can we conceive any kind of existence, but those perceptions, which have appeared in that narrow compass.
Page 125 - hath no other immediate object but its own ideas, which it alone does or can contemplate, it is evident that our knowledge is only conversant about them.
Page 173 - A man cannot inquire either about that which he knows or about that which he does not know ; for if he knows, he has no need to inquire ; and if he does not know, he cannot
Page 38 - Time is not real as such, and it proclaims its unreality by its inconsistent attempt to be an adjective of the timeless. It is an appearance which belongs to a higher character, in which its special quality is merged. Its own temporal nature does not there cease wholly to exist, but is thoroughly transmuted
Page 177 - as imperceptible corpuscles are in physics ; and it is as unreasonable to reject the one as the other on the ground that they are beyond the reach of our senses. Nothing takes place all at once, and it, is one of my great maxims,
Page 28 - to deny its existence, or to divorce it from reality, is out of the question. For it has a positive character, which is indubitable fact, and however much this fact may be pronounced appearance, it can have no place in which to live except reality. And reality set on one side, and apart from all appearance, would assuredly be nothing.
Page 129 - any fact that has a meaning, and meaning consists of a part of the content, cut off, fixed by the mind, and considered apart from the existence of the sign.
Page 109 - all that man can do is either to unite them together or to set them by one another, or wholly separate
Page 30 - The whole result of this Book may be summed up in a few words. Everything, so far, which we have seen, has turned out to be appearance. It is that which, taken as it stands, proves inconsistent with itself, and for this reason cannot be true of the real.
Page 109 - connect, or separate them, and thus to work up the raw material of our sensuous impressions into a knowledge of objects, which we call experience,"*