Truth and Reality: An Introduction to the Theory of KnowledgeMacmillan, 1911 - 334 pagina's |
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Truth and Reality: An Introduction to the Theory of Knowledge John Elof Boodin Volledige weergave - 1911 |
Truth and Reality: An Introduction to the Theory of Knowledge John Elof Boodin Volledige weergave - 1911 |
Truth and Reality: An Introduction to the Theory of Knowledge John Elof Boodin Volledige weergave - 1911 |
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absolute absolute idealism abstract adjustment agreement attitude become causal character cognitive complex concept concrete conduct consciousness constitution context deal definite demands difference Empedocles ence environment esthetic existence experience external F. C. S. SCHILLER facts feeling finite formal furnish human nature hypothesis idea ideal idealistic identity imitation implied individual infinite instincts intended judging process judgment Kant knowledge law of consistency law of identity laws of thought limitations logical meaning ment merely metaphysics mind naïve realism natural selection object organism over-beliefs Parmenides perception Philosophy physical Plato possible postulates pragmatism presuppose presuppositions priori problem procedure proposition Protagoras purpose qualities reality realization recognize reflective regards relations religious rience scientific seems selection sensations sense significance situation social stage stimuli striving structural subject-object survival syllogism systematic teleological tendencies theory things thinking thought process tion true truth unity universe valid whole
Populaire passages
Pagina 105 - This part of knowledge is irresistible, and like bright sunshine forces itself immediately to be perceived, as soon as ever the mind turns its view that way; and leaves no room for hesitation, doubt, or examination, but the mind is presently filled with the clear light of it. It is on this intuition that depends all the certainty and evidence of all our knowledge...
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 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 324 - Then God, if he be good, is not the author of all things, as the many assert, but he is the cause of a few things only, and not of most things that occur to men. For few are the goods of human life, and many are the evils, and the good is to be attributed to God alone; of the evils the causes are to be sought elsewhere, and not in him.
Pagina 40 - O Lady, we receive but what we give, And in our life alone does nature live.