An Examination of the Philosophy of the Unknowable as Expounded by Herbert SpencerB.F. Lacy, 1883 - 235 strán (strany) |
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Absolute abstract absurd activity admit affirm agency Agnosticism answer antecedent appearances argument ascer assertion assimilation Atheism attri attributes belief called causation cause cognition comprehension conceive conception conclusion congruity consciousness contemplation correlative correspondence DEDUCTIVE ARGUMENTS definite difference distinction distinguished doctrine effects element existence experience explanation extent external fact finite force hypothesis idea imagine implies impossible inconceivable infinite divisibility infinite series infinity internal Irrelative knowable knowledge known less limits manifestations matter Mental Substance minor premise modes motion mystery nature nescience noumena noumenon object of thought Objective Science Ontology Pantheism perception persistence phenomena phenomenon Philosophy present Prin produced proposition prove question Realism reality realize reason relation relative relativity of knowledge Religion represent representation Science sciousness self-existent sensation Sir William Hamilton Space spacial Spencer Substance of Mind supposed supposition symbol things tion transcends truth ultimate uncon Unconditioned universe Unknowable unlike unthinkable velocity
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Strana 80 - Evolution is an integration of matter, and concomitant dissipation of motion; during which the matter passes from an indefinite, incoherent homogeneity to a definite, coherent heterogeneity; and during which the retained motion undergoes a parallel transformation.
Strana 231 - that there is a mode of being as much transcending Intelligence and Will, as these transcend mechanical motion. It is true that we are totally unable to conceive any such higher mode of being. But this is not a reason for questioning its existence; it is rather the reverse.
Strana 125 - The Noumenon, everywhere named as the antithesis of the Phenomenon, is throughout necessarily thought of as an actuality. It is rigorously impossible to conceive that our knowledge is a knowledge of Appearances only, without at the same time conceiving a Reality of which they are appearances; for appearance without reality is unthinkable.
Strana 16 - of phenomena, we are unable to think of limits to the presence of this Power; while the criticisms of Science teach us that this Power is Incomprehensible. And this consciousness of an Incomprehensible Power, called Omnipresent from inability to assign its limits, is just that consciousness on which Religion dwells.
Strana 211 - hand such a Power exists, while on the other hand its nature transcends intuition and is beyond imagination, is the certainty towards which intelligence has from the first been progressing. To this conclusion Science inevitably arrives as it reaches its confines; while to this conclusion Religion is irresistibly driven by criticism.
Strana 125 - Observe in the first place, that every one of the arguments by which the relativity of our knowledge is demonstrated, distinctly postulates the positive existence of something beyond the relative. To say that we cannot know the Absolute, is, by implication, to affirm that there is an Absolute.
Strana 210 - Religions diametrically opposed in their overt dogmas, are yet perfectly at one in the tacit conviction that the existence of the world with all it contains and all which surrounds it is a mystery ever pressing for interpretation. On this point, if on no other, there is entire unanimity.
Strana 7 - In all imaginable ways we find thrust upon us the truth, that we are not permitted to know—nay are not even permitted to conceive—that Reality which is behind the veil of Appearance; and yet it is said to be our duty to believe (and in so far to conceive) that this
Strana 127 - Correlatives certainly suggest each other, but correlatives may, or may not, be equally real and positive. In thought contradictories necessarily imply each other, for the knowledge of contradictories is one. But the reality of one contradictory, so far from guaranteeing the reality of the other, is nothing else than its negation.
Strana 12 - Deep down then in the very nature of Life, the relativity of our knowledge is discernible. The analysis of vital actions in general, leads not only to the conclusion that things in themselves cannot be known to us; but also to the conclusion that knowledge of them, were it possible, would be useless.