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... knowledge of one thing , by reminding us of our total ignorance of another . Besides , as mind and matter are confessedly the only constituents or parts that make up the human being , it is rather humiliating to be told , that we have ...
... knowledge of one thing , by reminding us of our total ignorance of another . Besides , as mind and matter are confessedly the only constituents or parts that make up the human being , it is rather humiliating to be told , that we have ...
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... knowledge of self , and vindicated that knowledge from the metaphysical ob- jections and cavils that have been brought against it by abstract reasoning . The object was , to establish a distinction , not merely between material and ...
... knowledge of self , and vindicated that knowledge from the metaphysical ob- jections and cavils that have been brought against it by abstract reasoning . The object was , to establish a distinction , not merely between material and ...
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... knowledge that it will happen . " Certainly it does not ; but a mental sequence between a volition and a bodily ... knowledge of what will happen , yet the idea of what we will ( that is , the consciousness of a volition , ) does imply ...
... knowledge that it will happen . " Certainly it does not ; but a mental sequence between a volition and a bodily ... knowledge of what will happen , yet the idea of what we will ( that is , the consciousness of a volition , ) does imply ...
Contents
THE DISTINCTION BETWEEN PHYSICAL AND METAPHYSICAL | 1 |
THIS DISTINCTION APPLIED TO PHILOSOPHY AND THEOLOGY | 25 |
CHAPTER VIII | 173 |
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