item: #1 of 15 id: 10615 author: Locke, John title: An Essay Concerning Humane Understanding, Volume 1 MDCXC, Based on the 2nd Edition, Books 1 and 2 date: None words: 150382 flesch: 59 summary: If nature took care to provide us any ideas, we might well expect they should be such as by our own faculties we cannot procure to ourselves; but we see, on the contrary, that since, by those ways whereby other ideas are brought into our minds, this is not, we have no such clear idea at all; and therefore signify nothing by the word SUBSTANCE but only an uncertain supposition of we know not what, i. e. of something whereof we have no idea, which we take to be the substratum, or support, of those ideas we do know. The mind receiving the ideas mentioned in the foregoing chapters from without, when it turns its view inward upon itself, and observes its own actions about those ideas it has, takes from thence other ideas, which are as capable to be the objects of its contemplation as any of those it received from foreign things. keywords: actions; bodies; body; come; complex; consider; duration; existence; extension; god; good; having; ideas; infinite; innate; knowledge; makes; man; matter; men; mind; modes; motion; names; nature; number; pain; parts; place; pleasure; power; present; principles; qualities; reason; sensation; senses; soul; space; substances; things; thinking; thoughts; time; truth; understanding; use; way; words cache: 10615.txt plain text: 10615.txt item: #2 of 15 id: 10616 author: Locke, John title: An Essay Concerning Humane Understanding, Volume 2 MDCXC, Based on the 2nd Edition, Books 3 and 4 date: None words: 125242 flesch: 57 summary: That then which words are the marks of are the ideas of the speaker: nor can any one apply them as marks, immediately, to anything else but the ideas that he himself hath: for this would be to make them signs of his own conceptions, and yet apply them to other ideas; which would be to make them signs and not signs of his ideas at the same time; and so in effect to have no signification at all. Thus far the names and essences of mixed modes have nothing but what is common to them with other ideas: but if we take a little nearer survey of them, we shall find that they have something peculiar, which perhaps may deserve our attention. keywords: agreement; assent; body; certainty; connexion; disagreement; doubt; essence; existence; general; gold; ideas; knowledge; man; matter; men; mind; modes; motion; names; nature; parts; propositions; qualities; real; reason; right; signification; sort; species; stand; substances; terms; things; thoughts; truth; use; way; words cache: 10616.txt plain text: 10616.txt item: #3 of 15 id: 1580 author: Plato title: Charmides date: None words: 21869 flesch: 67 summary: And if we could find something which is at once greater than itself, and greater than other great things, but not greater than those things in comparison of which the others are greater, then that thing would have the property of being greater and also less than itself? You come asking in what wisdom or temperance differs from the other sciences, and then you try to discover some respect in which they are alike; but they are not, for all the other sciences are of something else, and not of themselves; wisdom alone is a science of other sciences, and of itself. keywords: charmides; critias; dialogues; english; good; greek; ideas; knowledge; language; man; philosophy; plato; science; socrates; temperance; things; wisdom; words cache: 1580.txt plain text: 1580.txt item: #4 of 15 id: 1726 author: Plato title: Theaetetus date: None words: 66182 flesch: 69 summary: And the world is full of men who are asking to be taught and willing to be ruled, and of other men who are willing to rule and teach them. Neither must we forget that in the use of the senses, as in his whole nature, man is a social being, who is always being educated by language, habit, and the teaching of other men as well as by his own observation. keywords: answer; argument; good; having; knowledge; knows; language; man; men; mind; motion; nature; opinion; perception; philosophy; plato; protagoras; question; right; sense; socrates; theaetetus; theodorus; things; think; thought; time; truth; way; words; world cache: 1726.txt plain text: 1726.txt item: #5 of 15 id: 2529 author: Russell, Bertrand title: The Analysis of Mind date: None words: 89881 flesch: 59 summary: What results, formally, from our knowledge of the past through images of which we recognize the inaccuracy, is that such images must have two characteristics by which we can arrange them in two series, of which one corresponds to the more or less remote period in the past to which they refer, and the other to our greater or less confidence in their accuracy. Thus we may say that we think of an image A when we have a similar image B associated with recollections of circumstances connected with A, but not with its prototype or with other images of the same prototype. keywords: belief; case; consciousness; content; desire; experience; fact; feeling; general; habit; images; knowledge; laws; lecture; matter; meaning; memory; mental; mind; movements; object; past; physics; present; psychology; question; relation; sensations; sense; thought; time; view; way; words; world cache: 2529.txt plain text: 2529.txt item: #6 of 15 id: 32701 author: Prichard, H. A. (Harold Arthur) title: Kant's Theory of Knowledge date: None words: 99894 flesch: 56 summary: But, since in his statement of this fact he substitutes for bodies phenomena, which to him are perceptions, his statement can be put in the form 'space is _the form of perceptions_'; and the statement in this form is verbally almost identical with the statement that space is _a form of perception_. Here Kant definitely implies that an objective sequence, i. e. an order or sequence of the _manifold_ of a phenomenon, consists in a sequence of _perceptions or apprehensions_ of which the order is necessary or according to a rule; in other words, that a succession of perceptions in the special case where the succession is necessary is a succession of events perceived.[37] keywords: apprehension; conception; consciousness; judgement; kant; knowledge; manifold; mind; nature; object; perception; priori; reality; relation; representations; space; synthesis; things; thought; time; view cache: 32701.txt plain text: 32701.txt item: #7 of 15 id: 39964 author: Dietzgen, Joseph title: The Positive Outcome of Philosophy The Nature of Human Brain Work. Letters on Logic. date: None words: 121935 flesch: 59 summary: Since reason, or the faculty of thought, never appears by itself, but always in connection with other things, we are continually compelled to pass from the faculty of thought to other things, which are its objects, and to treat of their connections. In order that light may shine, that the sun may warm, and revolve in its course, there must be space and other things which may be lighted and warmed and passed. keywords: absolute; brain; cause; concept; conception; concrete; consciousness; end; existence; experience; fact; faculty; form; general; good; human; individual; infinite; intellect; knowledge; life; logic; material; matter; means; mind; nature; object; order; parts; perceptions; phenomena; philosophy; question; reason; right; science; sense; soul; special; study; things; thought; time; truth; understanding; universal; universe; way; words; work; world cache: 39964.txt plain text: 39964.txt item: #8 of 15 id: 4705 author: Hume, David title: A Treatise of Human Nature date: None words: 226313 flesch: 53 summary: Thus if instead of saying, that in war the weaker have always recourse to negotiation, we should say, that they have always recourse to conquest, the custom, which we have acquired of attributing certain relations to ideas, still follows the words, and makes us immediately perceive the absurdity of that proposition; in the same manner as one particular idea may serve us in reasoning concerning other ideas, however different from it in several circumstances. If ideas be particular in their nature, and at the same time finite in their number, it is only by custom they can become general in their representation, and contain an infinite number of other ideas under them. keywords: actions; cause; connexion; contrary; degree; effect; existence; experience; force; form; general; good; great; hatred; human; idea; imagination; impressions; influence; interest; kind; love; manner; men; mind; nature; object; order; particular; parts; passions; perceptions; person; place; pleasure; power; present; pride; principles; produce; property; qualities; quality; reason; reasoning; regard; relation; sect; senses; society; subject; thing; thought; time cache: 4705.txt plain text: 4705.txt item: #9 of 15 id: 4723 author: Berkeley, George title: A Treatise Concerning the Principles of Human Knowledge date: None words: 37377 flesch: 58 summary: For, when we perceive certain ideas of Sense constantly followed by other ideas and WE KNOW Nothing can be plainer to me than that the extensions I have in view are no other than my own ideas; and it is no less plain that I cannot resolve any one of my ideas into an infinite number of other ideas, that is, that they are not infinitely divisible. keywords: abstract; existence; extension; general; ideas; matter; men; mind; motion; nature; parts; qualities; sense; spirit; substance; things; thought; use; words cache: 4723.txt plain text: 4723.txt item: #10 of 15 id: 47658 author: Carr, Herbert Wildon title: The Problem of Truth date: None words: 28331 flesch: 65 summary: Neither, then, is reality truth, nor appearance error. The idea that we are perhaps disqualified by our very nature itself from beholding reality and knowing truth is illustrated in the well-known allegory in the _Republic_ of Plato: And now let me show in a figure how far our nature is enlightened or unenlightened. keywords: error; existence; experience; idea; illusion; intellect; knowledge; life; meaning; mind; movement; nature; object; philosophy; pragmatist; problem; reality; space; theory; things; time; truth cache: 47658.txt plain text: 47658.txt item: #11 of 15 id: 53791 author: Hume, David title: Philosophical Works, v. 1 (of 4) Including All the Essays, and Exhibiting the More Important Alterations and Corrections in the Successive Editions Published by the Author date: None words: 130705 flesch: 55 summary: We shall briefly examine each of these in order, and shall subjoin some considerations concerning our _general_ and _particular_ ideas, before we leave the present subject, which may be considered as the elements of this philosophy. A very material question has been started concerning _abstract_ or _general_ ideas, _whether they be general or particular in the mind's conception of them_. keywords: belief; body; cause; connexion; contrary; effect; existence; experience; extension; force; form; general; hume; idea; identity; imagination; impression; influence; kind; letter; manner; mind; nature; number; objects; opinion; order; particular; parts; perceptions; place; present; principles; qualities; reason; reasoning; relation; resemblance; rousseau; senses; subject; thing; thought; time; tis cache: 53791.txt plain text: 53791.txt item: #12 of 15 id: 53792 author: Hume, David title: Philosophical Works, v. 2 (of 4) Including All the Essays, and Exhibiting the More Important Alterations and Corrections in the Successive Editions Published by the Author date: None words: 160751 flesch: 54 summary: Of this nature are constancy, fortitude, magnanimity; and, in short, all the qualities which form the _great_ man. In order to this, we must first show the correspondence of _passions_ in men and animals, and afterwards compare the _causes_, which produce these passions. keywords: actions; cause; contrary; effect; experience; force; general; good; great; hatred; human; humility; ideas; imagination; impressions; influence; interest; justice; kind; love; manner; men; mind; moral; nature; object; order; pain; passions; person; pleasure; present; pride; principles; produce; property; qualities; reason; regard; relation; sense; sentiments; society; subject; sympathy; system; thing; time; tis; virtue; world cache: 53792.txt plain text: 53792.txt item: #13 of 15 id: 55761 author: Steiner, Rudolf title: The Philosophy of Spiritual Activity A Modern Philosophy of Life Developed by Scientific Methods date: None words: 91131 flesch: 64 summary: The fancy-picture of other perceptual worlds, made possible by other senses, has nothing to do with the problem of how it is that man stands in the midst of reality. Vice versa, it may happen that men with moral imagination lack technical skill, and are dependent on the service of other men for the realisation of their ideas. keywords: action; activity; concept; consciousness; content; ego; existence; experience; form; given; human; ideas; individual; knowledge; life; man; nature; naïve; object; perception; percepts; pleasure; point; process; reality; self; sense; theory; things; thinking; thought; view; way; world cache: 55761.txt plain text: 55761.txt item: #14 of 15 id: 5827 author: Russell, Bertrand title: The Problems of Philosophy date: None words: 43323 flesch: 62 summary: Thus according to the philosophers before Kant, the law of contradiction, which asserts that nothing can at the same time have and not have a certain property, sufficed to establish the truth of all _a priori_ knowledge. We will, in the next chapter, consider briefly what may be said to account for such knowledge, and what is its scope and its degree of certainty. keywords: acquaintance; belief; data; experience; fact; knowledge; mind; object; philosophy; relation; self; sense; space; table; things; truth; world cache: 5827.txt plain text: 5827.txt item: #15 of 15 id: 9662 author: Hume, David title: An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding date: None words: 57986 flesch: 54 summary: They pretend that those objects which are commonly denominated _causes,_ are in reality nothing but _occasions;_ and that the true and direct principle of every effect is not any power or force in nature, but a volition of the Supreme Being, who wills that such particular objects should for ever be conjoined with each other. But there are other causes, which have been found more irregular and uncertain; nor has rhubarb always proved a purge, or opium a soporific to every one, who has taken these medicines. keywords: actions; argument; cause; connexion; effect; event; existence; experience; fact; force; human; ideas; life; matter; men; mind; miracle; nature; necessity; objects; operations; particular; philosophy; power; present; principles; qualities; reason; reasoning; regard; senses; testimony cache: 9662.txt plain text: 9662.txt