Scientific TheismLittle, Brown, 1885 - 219 páginas |
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absolute affirmation Aristotle assumption cognition concede conceived conceptive understanding cosmical cosmos creates creative understanding denies Ding-an-sich discovered discovery doctrine ence essential experience external fact false finite fundamental Greek Hegel Hence human consciousness human knowledge human mind hypostasis ideal appearance immanent relational constitution inference infinitely intelligible inseparable intellectual jectivism Kant Kantian knowable knowl known logical machine means merely subjective Moderate Realism modern philosophy modern science Monism Nominalism Nominalistic noumenon noumenon and phenomenon objective existence objective reality objective relations objectivism objectivity of relations organism origin perceptive understanding philosophy of science possible presuppositions principle Prof propositions pure Pyrrhon real relations reason rela relational systems Relationism relativity of knowledge representation revolution Roscellinus scepticism Scholasticism scientific method scientific realism sciousness Scotch school self-existent sensations sense Solipsism subjectivism teleological Theism theory of noumenism theory of phenomenism thing-in-itself things-in-themselves thought tion true truth unintelligible unity universe unknown utterly validity whole words
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Página 88 - All right," said the Cat; and this time it vanished quite slowly, beginning with the end of the tail, and ending with the grin, which remained some time after the rest of it had gone. "Well! I've often seen a cat without a grin," thought Alice; "but a grin without a cat!
Página 66 - Aristotle) must believe, in order that he may learn ; and even the primary facts of intelligence, — the facts which precede, as they afford the conditions of, all knowledge, — would not be original, were they revealed to us under any other form than that of natural or necessary beliefs.
Página 66 - Those things do really exist which we distinctly perceive by our. senses, and are what we perceive them to be.
Página 47 - How this inference is justified, how consciousness can testify to the existence of anything outside of itself, I do not pretend to say ; I need not untie a knot which the world has cut for me long ago. It may very well be that I myself am the only existence, but it is simply ridiculous to suppose that anybody else is. The position of absolute idealism may, therefore, be left out of count, although each individual may be unable to justify his dissent from it.
Página 209 - Because it is an infinite organism, its immanent organic end appears as the eternal realization of the Ideal, and therefore as infinite Holiness. 10. Because, as an infinite organism, it thus manifests infinite Wisdom, Power, and Goodness, or thought, feeling, and will in their infinite fulness, and because these three constitute the essential manifestations of personality, it must be conceived as Infinite Person, Absolute Spirit, Creative Source and Eternal Home of the derivative finite personalities...
Página 1 - We here propose to do just what Copernicus did in attempting to explain the celestial movements. When he found that he could make no progress by assuming that all the heavenly bodies revolved round the spectator, he reversed the process, and tried the experiment of assuming that the spectator revolved, while the stars remained at rest.
Página 13 - I grant, may all be wrong, and there may be no such things as molecules ; but, then, the philosophy of every science assumes similar fundamental principles, of which the only proof it can offer is a certain harmony with observed facts. So it is with our science. The new chemistry assumes as its fundamental postulate that the magnitudes we call molecules are realities ; but this is the only postulate. Grant the postulate, and you will find that all the rest follows as a necessary deduction. Deny it,...
Página 2 - ... the spectator, he reversed the process, and tried the experiment of assuming that the spectator revolved, while the stars remained at rest. We may make the same experiment with regard to the intuition of objects. If the intuition must conform to the nature of the objects, I do not see how we can know anything of them a priori. If, on the other hand, the object conforms to the nature of our faculty of intuition, I can then easily conceive the possibility of such an a priori knowledge.
Página 2 - Kepler ; but he made another comparison that is more significant and appropriate. He compared his achievement with that of Copernicus. But this achievement consisted in this, that he reversed the previous standpoint of metaphysics. Copernicus dared, 'by a paradoxical but yet true method,' to seek the observed motions, not in the heavenly bodies, but in their observers. Not less
Página 47 - ... known changes. But the inferred existence of your feelings, of objective groupings among them similar to those among my feelings, and of a subjective order in many respects analogous to my own, — these inferred existences are in the very act of inference thrown out of my consciousness, recognized as outside of it, as not being a part of me. I propose, accordingly, to call these inferred existences ejects, things thrown out of my consciousness, to distinguish them from objects, things presented...