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... higher faculties . But discrimination is not merely the perception of different things , —it is the perception of things as different . This implies com- parison , and comparison implies a class to which the things compared belong . To ...
... higher faculties . But discrimination is not merely the perception of different things , —it is the perception of things as different . This implies com- parison , and comparison implies a class to which the things compared belong . To ...
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... higher truths , and is the more stimulating ; Science seeks greater exactness , and finds out more of the serviceable elements of knowledge . d . Philosophy seeks the truth for the love of it , yields its opinions reluctantly , makes a ...
... higher truths , and is the more stimulating ; Science seeks greater exactness , and finds out more of the serviceable elements of knowledge . d . Philosophy seeks the truth for the love of it , yields its opinions reluctantly , makes a ...
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... higher Intuitions than those included in perception and self - consciousness ; others give a broader meaning to the word Intuition , while they hold that the mind has conscious relations only to itself in different states . There are ...
... higher Intuitions than those included in perception and self - consciousness ; others give a broader meaning to the word Intuition , while they hold that the mind has conscious relations only to itself in different states . There are ...
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... higher activity than that of plants seen in animals . The science of Zoology is distinct from Botany , because the laws of the development of animal organisms are different from those seen in the development of plants , and we must ...
... higher activity than that of plants seen in animals . The science of Zoology is distinct from Botany , because the laws of the development of animal organisms are different from those seen in the development of plants , and we must ...
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... higher than conscious experience . In our concep- tions of an object perceived by the senses , we bind the qualities of matter together by a power in the mind itself . In comparing objects with one another , and classifying S. E. - 6 ...
... higher than conscious experience . In our concep- tions of an object perceived by the senses , we bind the qualities of matter together by a power in the mind itself . In comparing objects with one another , and classifying S. E. - 6 ...
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