 The true incomprehensibility perhaps is, that something which has ceased, or is not yet in existence, can still be, in a manner, present ; that a series of feelings, the infinitely greater part of which is past or future, can be gathered up, as it were,...  Recent British Philosophy: A Review, with Criticisms; Including Some ... - 339. oldalszerző: David Masson - 1865 - 414 oldalTeljes nézet - Információ erről a könyvről
 | Leslie Stephen - 1900 - 542 oldal
...' inexplicability ' which must arrive, as he admits with Hamilton, when we get to an ultimate fact. The ' wisest thing we can do is to accept the inexplicable fact without any theory of how it takes place.' 1 That what we call personal identity is ' inexplicable ' will hardly be denied. Yet Mill's position... | |
 | John Clark Murray - 1904 - 538 oldal
...infinitely greater part of which is past or future, can be gathered up, as it were, into a single present conception, accompanied by a belief of reality. I...inexplicable fact without any theory of how it takes place." 1 No one can fail to be impressed with the fairness of spirit which characterises this exposition by... | |
 | James Seth - 1912 - 404 oldal
...truth. The real stumbling block is perhaps not in any theory of the fact, but in the fact itself. ... I think, by far the wisest thing we can do, is to...in terms which assume a theory, to use them with a reservation as to their meaning.' 3 In the Appendix to Chapters XI. and XII. he speaks more positively... | |
 | Frank Thilly - 1914 - 640 oldal
...that something which ex hypothesi is but a series of feelings, can be aware of itself as a series. ... I think by far the wisest thing we can do is to accept...in terms which assume a theory, to use them with a reservation as to their meaning."* As was pointed out before, Mill was deeply interested in the reform... | |
 | Frank Thilly - 1914 - 1358 oldal
...that something which ex hypothesi is but a series of feelings, can be aware of itself as a series. ... I think by far the wisest thing we can do is to accept...takes place; and when we are obliged to speak of it in terras which assume a theory, to use them with a reservation as to their meaning. ' ' * As was pointed... | |
 | John Elof Boodin - 1916 - 442 oldal
...... I think by far the wisest thing we can do is to accept the inexplicable fact, without any theory how it takes place ; and when we are obliged to speak...in terms which assume a theory to use them with a reservation as to their meaning." l Yes, perhaps. But would it not be wiser still not to invent such... | |
 | John Elof Boodin - 1916 - 444 oldal
...that something which ex hypothesi is but a series of feelings can be aware of itself as a series. ... I think by far the wisest thing we can do is to accept the inexplicable fact, without any theory how it takes place ; and when we are obliged to speak of it in terms which assume a theory to use them... | |
 | William James - 1918 - 746 oldal
...infinitely greater part of which is past or future, can be gathered up, as it were, into a simple present conception, accompanied by a belief of reality. I...takes place ; and when we are obliged to speak of it hi terms which assume a theory, to use them with a reservation as to their meaning." In a later place... | |
 | Guido De Ruggiero - 1921 - 410 oldal
...to speak, in a present sensation, accompanied by the belief in its reality. ' I think,' he adds, ' by far the wisest thing we can do, is to accept the...inexplicable fact, without any theory of how it takes place.' l Thus the incomprehensible finishes by being the whole of Mill's theory. His sensations are a sort... | |
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