 | James Oswald Dykes, James Stuart Candlish, Hugh Sinclair Paterson, Joseph Samuel Exell - 1861 - 994 oldal
...asserted, that in perception we are conscious of the external object immediately and in itself. ... To know a thing in itself or immediately, is an expression...knowledge of a thing in a representation or mediately. . . . Our knowledge is only of the relative." (R. 866.) Again he says: — "Absolute is used in two... | |
 | Thomas Reid - 1863 - 552 oldal
...in its absoluto existence, that is, out of relation to us. This is impossible ; for our know, ledge is only of the relative. To know a thing in itself...knowledge of a thing in a representation, or mediately. (See Note B,) On this doctrine an external quality is said to be known in itself, when it is known... | |
 | Thomas Reid - 1863 - 542 oldal
...our knowledge is only of the relative. To know a tiling in itsrlf or immediately, is an expression 1 use merely in contrast to the knowledge of a thing in a representation, or mediately. (Sec Note B.) On this doctrine an external quality is said to be known in itself, when it is known... | |
 | John Stuart Mill - 1865 - 332 oldal
...we to judge from a foot-note to the same Dissertation, we might suppose so. He there observes* — "In saying that a thing is known in itself, I do not...knowledge of a thing in a representation, or mediately : " in other words, he merely means that we perceive objects directly, and not through the species... | |
 | John Stuart Mill - 1865 - 342 oldal
...to judge from a foot-note to the same Dissertation, we might suppose so. He there observes * — " In saying that a thing is known in itself, I do not...knowledge of a thing in a representation, or mediately : " in other words, he merely means that we perceive objects directly, and not through the species... | |
 | John Stuart Mill - 1865 - 578 oldal
...impossible : for our knowledge is only " of the relative. To know a thing in itself or imme" diately, is an expression I use merely in contrast to " the...knowledge of a thing in a representation, or " mediately:" in other words, he merely means that we perceive objects directly, and not through the species * P.... | |
 | John Stuart Mill - 1865 - 578 oldal
...impossible : for our knowledge is only " of the relative. To know a thing in itself or imme" diately, is an expression I use merely in contrast to " the...knowledge of a thing in a representation, or " mediately :" in other words, he merely means that we perceive objects directly, and not through the species *... | |
 | David Masson - 1865 - 432 oldal
...possible ; for our knowledge is only of the " relative. To know a thing in itself or immedi" ately is an expression I use merely in contrast " to the knowledge of a thing in a representation " or mediately."1 Perhaps it might have been well if Sir William had more strongly and repeatedly discriminated... | |
 | Henry Boynton Smith, James Manning Sherwood - 1866 - 686 oldal
...Mr. Mill puts upon him (p. 866): " In saying that a thing is known in itself, I do not mean that the object is known in its absolute existence, that is,...merely in contrast to the knowledge of a thing in representation or mediately." This does not satisfy his critic (Mil),i., p. 32), who claims that the... | |
 | Sir William Hamilton - 1866 - 548 oldal
...This u the doctrine of Natural Kcalism. But in saying that n thing is known in itself, I do not mcan that this object is known in its absolute existence,...expression I use merely in contrast to the knowledge of o thing in a representation, or mediately. 1 On this doctrine an external quality is said to bo known... | |
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But in saying that a thing is known in itself I do not mean that this object is known in its absolute existence — that is, out of relation to us. This is impossible, for our knowledge is only of the relative. To know a thing in itself, or immediately,... 
