Truth and Reality: An Introduction to the Theory of Knowledge

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Macmillan, 1911 - 334 pagina's
 

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Pagina 174 - ... to fair notions, until from fair notions he arrives at the notion of absolute beauty, and at last knows what the essence of beauty is. This, my dear Socrates...
Pagina 4 - In respect to the gods, I am unable to know either that they are or that they are not, for there are many obstacles to such knowledge, above all the obscurity of the matter, and the life of man...
Pagina 165 - man is the measure of all things, of those which are, that they are, and of those which are not, that they are not...
Pagina 110 - Now there can be one and only one such experience: or only one significant whole, the significance of which is self-contained in the sense required. For it is absolute self-fulfilment, absolutely self-contained significance, that is postulated; and nothing short of absolute individuality - nothing short of the completely whole experience - can satisfy this postulate.
Pagina 107 - Truth then seems to me, in the proper import of the word, to signify nothing but the joining or separating of signs, as the things signified by them, do agree or disagree one with another.
Pagina 14 - And only the Master shall praise us, and only the Master shall blame; And no one shall work for money, and no one shall work for fame, But each for the joy of the working, and each, in his separate star, Shall draw the Thing as he sees It for the God of Things as They are!
Pagina 287 - Grau, teurer Freund, ist alle Theorie Und griin des Lebens goldner Baum.
Pagina 105 - There is, indeed, another perception of the mind, employed about the particular existence of finite beings without us ; which going beyond bare probability, and yet not reaching perfectly to either of the foregoing degrees of certainty, passes under the name of knowledge.
Pagina 40 - O Lady, we receive but what we give, And in our life alone does nature live.
Pagina 260 - We perceive that this which we call Intelligence, shows itself when the external relations to which the internal ones are adjusted, begin to be numerous, complex, and remote in time or space...

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