...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...in terms which assume a theory, to use them with a reservation as to their meaning." In a later place in the same book (p. 561) Mill, speaking of what...

...be gathered up, as it were, into a simple present conception, accompanied by a belief of reality. 1 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. " In a later place in the same book (p. 561) Mill, speaking of what...

...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...any theory of how it takes place ; and when •we arc obliged to speak of it in terms which assume a theory, to use them with a reservation as to their...

...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...wisest thing we can do is to accept the inexplicable fuel, without any theory of how it takes place ; and when we are obliged to speak of it in terms which...

...series."11 He however abandons the hopeless attempt to remove the "paradox," naively counselling us that " by far the wisest thing we can do is to accept the fact." The term "paradox" is here abused. Incredible absurdity is the phrase which would have precisely...

...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...

...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...

...' 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...

...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...

...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...