An Introduction to MetaphysicsPutnam's, 1912 - 92 pagine |
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Pagina 9 - there exists any means of possessing a reality absolutely instead of knowing it relatively, of placing oneself within it instead of looking at it from outside points of view, of having the intuition instead of making the analysis: in short, of seizing it without any expression, translation, or symbolic representation
Pagina 92 - distinct from these, we repeat, as the motor impulse is distinct from the path traversed by the moving body, as the tension of the spring is distinct from the visible movements of the pendulum. In this sense metaphysics has nothing in common with a generalization of facts, and nevertheless it might be defined as integral experience. THE END
Pagina 4 - essence, cannot be perceived from without, being internal by definition, nor be expressed by symbols, being incommensurable with everything else. Description, history, and analysis leave me here in the relative. Coincidence with the person himself would alone give me the absolute.
Pagina 16 - we shall prevent any one of them from usurping the place of the intuition it is intended to call up, since it would then be driven away at once by its rivals. By \providing that, in spite of their differences
Pagina 12 - being who does not feel himself coming gradually to the end of his role; and to live is to grow old. But it may just as well be compared to a continual rolling up, like that of a thread on a ball, for our past follows us, it swells incessantly with the present that it picks up on its way; and
Pagina 16 - borrowed from very different orders of things, may, by the convergence of their action, direct consciousness to the precise point where there is a certain intuition to be
Pagina 12 - accompany this sensation cannot remain identical with itself for two consecutive moments, because the second moment always contains, over and above the first, the memory that the first has bequeathed to it. A consciousness which could experience two identical moments would be a consciousness
Pagina 11 - flux which is not comparable to any flux I| have ever seen. There is a succession of states, each of which announces that which \ follows and contains that which precedes
Pagina 65 - is right on this point, as against the idealism and realism of the philosophers. II. This reality is mobility. Not things made, but things in the making, not selfmaintaining states, but only changing states, exist.
Pagina 64 - them more completely when we come to deal with other problems. I. There is a reality that is external and yet given immediately to the mind. Common-sense is right on this point, as against the idealism and realism of the philosophers. II. This reality is mobility. Not things made, but things in the making, not selfmaintaining states, but only changing states, exist.