item: #1 of 35 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: 151425 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; clear; come; complex ideas; different ideas; distinct ideas; duration; god; good; great; having; ideas; infinite; innate; innate ideas; knowledge; man; matter; men; mind; motion; names; parts; power; principles; reason; simple ideas; space; substances; things; think; thinking; thoughts; time; understanding; use cache: /shared/reader-library/theory-of-knowledge/cache/10615.txt plain text: /shared/reader-library/theory-of-knowledge/txt/10615.txt item: #2 of 35 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: 125232 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: abstract ideas; agreement; certain; complex ideas; different; distinct ideas; essence; existence; general; general ideas; great; ideas; knowledge; man; matter; men; mind; names; nature; particular; propositions; qualities; real; reason; signification; simple ideas; species; stand; substances; things; truth; use; words cache: /shared/reader-library/theory-of-knowledge/cache/10616.txt plain text: /shared/reader-library/theory-of-knowledge/txt/10616.txt item: #3 of 35 id: 14970 author: Cicero, Marcus Tullius title: Academica date: None words: 103289 flesch: 79 summary: cf. n. on 8. _Implicato_: = _impedito_ cf. _lineam_ cf. keywords: academica; aliquid; antiochus; aristotle; atque; att; atticus; aug; aut; autem; bait; book; carneades; catulus; cicero; contra; cum; d.f; dav; div; edd; edition; enim; esse; est; etiam; goer; greek; haec; halm; hoc; hortensius; ibid; igitur; iii; iis; illa; ille; illud; inter; ista; ita; kai; knowledge; like; lucullus; m.d.f; madv; meaning; mihi; modo; mss; n.d; natura; nec; neque; nihil; nisi; non; nos; note; nunc; old; omnia; orelli; passage; percipi; philosophy; plato; posse; possit; potest; primum; pro; quae; quam; quasi; qui; quibus; quidem; quod; read; reading; rebus; rerum; sed; sensations; sense; sensibus; sext; sic; sint; sit; stoic; sunt; t.d; tamen; things; time; true; tum; use; varro; vel; vera; vero; vii; visa; word; works; xiii; zeller; zeno cache: /shared/reader-library/theory-of-knowledge/cache/14970.txt plain text: /shared/reader-library/theory-of-knowledge/txt/14970.txt item: #4 of 35 id: 1580 author: Plato title: Charmides date: None words: 21873 flesch: 67 summary: 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. Does not what you have been saying, if true, amount to this: that there must be a single science which is wholly a science of itself and of other sciences, and that the same is also the science of the absence of science? keywords: charmides; critias; english; good; greek; knowledge; plato; science; socrates; temperance; true; wisdom cache: /shared/reader-library/theory-of-knowledge/cache/1580.txt plain text: /shared/reader-library/theory-of-knowledge/txt/1580.txt item: #5 of 35 id: 1726 author: Plato title: Theaetetus date: None words: 66186 flesch: 71 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; good; great; knowledge; knows; like; man; mind; nature; opinion; perception; philosophy; plato; protagoras; right; sense; socrates; theaetetus; theodorus; things; thought; time; true; truth cache: /shared/reader-library/theory-of-knowledge/cache/1726.txt plain text: /shared/reader-library/theory-of-knowledge/txt/1726.txt item: #6 of 35 id: 18835 author: Whitehead, Alfred North title: The Concept of Nature The Tarner Lectures Delivered in Trinity College, November 1919 date: None words: 60462 flesch: 60 summary: In respect to the ingression of blue into nature events may be roughly put into four classes which overlap and are not very clearly separated. A discerned event is known as related in this structure to other events whose specific characters are otherwise not disclosed in that immediate awareness except so far as that they are relata within the structure. keywords: abstractive; awareness; certain; character; duration; entities; event; fact; instantaneous space; mind; moment; nature; objects; particles; point; present; relations; science; sense; set; space; system; theory; thought; time cache: /shared/reader-library/theory-of-knowledge/cache/18835.txt plain text: /shared/reader-library/theory-of-knowledge/txt/18835.txt item: #7 of 35 id: 23422 author: Philip, Alexander title: Essays Towards a Theory of Knowledge date: None words: 24603 flesch: 53 summary: The ever operative forces of Gravity, Cohesion, Chemical Affinity, and so forth are the phenomenal expression of the laws of energetic transmutation in which we partake and of which we are organically a part, however apparently separate and disparate our bodies may seem to be. There may be many different forms of energetic transmutation which may determine many other forms of space besides that form of tridimensional space in which our Activity is involved. keywords: activity; energetic; energy; experience; forms; knowledge; laws; nature; real; reality; science; sensations; sensible; space; system; transmutations; world cache: /shared/reader-library/theory-of-knowledge/cache/23422.txt plain text: /shared/reader-library/theory-of-knowledge/txt/23422.txt item: #8 of 35 id: 2529 author: Russell, Bertrand title: The Analysis of Mind date: None words: 89881 flesch: 60 summary: 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. 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. keywords: belief; case; certain; consciousness; content; desire; different; experience; fact; general; images; knowledge; laws; matter; memory; mental; mind; movements; object; past; physical; present; psychology; question; sensations; sense; thought; time; true; view; way; words cache: /shared/reader-library/theory-of-knowledge/cache/2529.txt plain text: /shared/reader-library/theory-of-knowledge/txt/2529.txt item: #9 of 35 id: 26495 author: Mill, John Stuart title: A System of Logic, Ratiocinative and Inductive (Vol. 1 of 2) date: None words: 186992 flesch: 49 summary: Several relations, generally called by other names, are really cases of resemblance. The student in philosophy will perceive that I allude to the distinction on which so much stress was laid by the schoolmen, and which has been retained either under the same or under other names by most metaphysicians to the present day, viz. keywords: attributes; body; case; causes; certain; class; common; conclusion; definition; different; effect; evidence; example; experience; fact; form; general; individual; induction; instances; knowledge; known; laws; letter iota; logic; man; meaning; means; method; mind; names; nature; necessary; object; oxia~}{~greek small; particular; phenomena; place; present; process; properties; proposition; real; reasoning; science; sensations; small letter; species; subject; theory; things; true; truth; word; ~greek small cache: /shared/reader-library/theory-of-knowledge/cache/26495.txt plain text: /shared/reader-library/theory-of-knowledge/txt/26495.txt item: #10 of 35 id: 27942 author: Mill, John Stuart title: A System of Logic, Ratiocinative and Inductive date: None words: 420776 flesch: 47 summary: When a fact has been observed a certain number of times to be true, and is not in any instance known to be false, if we at once affirm that fact as a universal truth or law of nature, without either testing it by any of the four methods of induction, or deducing it from other known laws, we shall in general err grossly; but we are perfectly justified in affirming it as an empirical law, true within certain limits of time, place, and circumstance, provided the number of coincidences be greater than can with any probability be ascribed to chance. All laws of causation are liable to be in this manner counteracted, and seemingly frustrated, by coming into conflict with other laws, the separate result of which is opposite to theirs, or more or less inconsistent with it. keywords: argument; attributes; bodies; body; case; causation; causes; certain; chapter; character; circumstances; class; common; conception; conclusion; conditions; considered; course; definition; degree; different; doctrine; effect; equal; evidence; example; existence; experience; fact; force; form; general; general laws; general proposition; great; greater; hamiltonâ �; human; idea; individual; induction; inference; instance; keplerâ �; kind; knowledge; known; language; laws; like; logic; lâ �; manner; matter; meaning; means; mental; mere; method; mind; mode; motion; names; natural; nature; necessary; new; number; objects; observation; observed; order; particular; phenomena; place; point; possible; premises; present; principles; process; produce; properties; property; proposition; proved; question; real; reasoning; result; science; scientific; sensations; sense; set; similar; simple; species; spencerâ �; state; subject; supposed; term; theory; things; thought; time; true; truth; universal; whatelyâ �; word; î¹ï �; � â; � � cache: /shared/reader-library/theory-of-knowledge/cache/27942.txt plain text: /shared/reader-library/theory-of-knowledge/txt/27942.txt item: #11 of 35 id: 32701 author: Prichard, H. A. (Harold Arthur) title: Kant's Theory of Knowledge date: None words: 100122 flesch: 56 summary: Pure conceptions, however, and empirical perceptions, i. e. objects of empirical perception, are quite heterogeneous. This is presupposed by the notice or attention involved in perception ordinarily so called, i. e. perception in the full sense in which it includes conceiving as well as perceiving.[7] Kant, therefore, is justified in referring to the sensibility as a 'receptivity' and to the understanding as a 'spontaneity'. keywords: apprehension; conception; consciousness; judgement; kant; knowledge; manifold; mind; nature; object; perception; priori; reality; relation; space; synthesis; things; thought; time cache: /shared/reader-library/theory-of-knowledge/cache/32701.txt plain text: /shared/reader-library/theory-of-knowledge/txt/32701.txt item: #12 of 35 id: 35420 author: Mill, John Stuart title: A System of Logic: Ratiocinative and Inductive, 7th Edition, Vol. I date: None words: 206255 flesch: 50 summary: Several relations, generally called by other names, are really cases of resemblance. The student in philosophy will perceive that I allude to the distinction on which so much stress was laid by the schoolmen, and which has been retained either under the same or under other names by most metaphysicians to the present day, viz. keywords: attributes; body; cases; cause; certain; circumstances; class; common; conclusion; definition; different; effect; evidence; example; existence; experience; fact; form; general; individual; induction; instances; knowledge; known; laws; logic; man; meaning; means; mere; method; mind; names; nature; necessary; new; number; object; particular; phenomena; place; predicate; present; process; properties; proposition; real; reasoning; science; sensations; species; state; subject; theory; things; true; truth; word; � â cache: /shared/reader-library/theory-of-knowledge/cache/35420.txt plain text: /shared/reader-library/theory-of-knowledge/txt/35420.txt item: #13 of 35 id: 35421 author: Mill, John Stuart title: A System of Logic: Ratiocinative and Inductive, 7th Edition, Vol. II date: None words: 197533 flesch: 46 summary: When a fact has been observed a certain number of times to be true, and is not in any instance known to be false; if we at once affirm that fact as an universal truth or law of nature, without testing it by any of the four methods of induction, nor deducing it from other known laws, we shall in general err grossly: but we are perfectly justified in affirming it as an empirical law, true within certain limits of time, place, and circumstance, provided the number of coincidences be greater than can with any probability be ascribed to chance. In the present chapter our attention will be directed to a particular case of the derivation of laws from other laws, but a case so general, and so important, as not only to repay, but to require, a separate examination. keywords: case; causation; causes; certain; chapter; character; circumstances; class; common; conception; degree; different; effect; empirical; evidence; example; exist; experience; fact; fallacy; form; general; general laws; great; human; individual; induction; instance; kind; knowledge; known; language; laws; manner; meaning; means; method; mind; mode; motion; natural; nature; necessary; number; objects; observation; order; particular; phenomena; place; possible; present; principles; properties; property; propositions; question; result; science; scientific; sec; social; society; state; subject; supposed; theory; things; time; true; truth; words cache: /shared/reader-library/theory-of-knowledge/cache/35421.txt plain text: /shared/reader-library/theory-of-knowledge/txt/35421.txt item: #14 of 35 id: 37090 author: Russell, Bertrand title: Our Knowledge of the External World as a Field for Scientific Method in Philosophy date: None words: 72151 flesch: 60 summary: If we are to avoid non-sensible objects, this must be taken as the whole of our meaning when we say that the blue spectacles are in a certain place, though we have not touched them, and have only seen other things rendered blue by their interposition. It is true that, in order to prolong our lines until they reach this place, we shall have to make use of other things besides the penny, because, so far as experience goes, the penny ceases to present any appearance after we have come so near to it that it touches the eye. keywords: case; certain; data; different; fact; form; general; infinite; kind; knowledge; logic; logical; number; objects; philosophy; physics; points; possible; question; relation; sense; series; space; theory; thing; time; true; world cache: /shared/reader-library/theory-of-knowledge/cache/37090.txt plain text: /shared/reader-library/theory-of-knowledge/txt/37090.txt item: #15 of 35 id: 38427 author: Schopenhauer, Arthur title: The World as Will and Idea (Vol. 1 of 3) date: None words: 201784 flesch: 50 summary: TAU~}{~GREEK SMALL LETTER EPSILON~}{~GREEK SMALL LETTER LAMDA~}{~GREEK SMALL LETTER OMICRON~}{~GREEK SMALL LETTER FINAL SIGMA~} {~GREEK SMALL LETTER OMEGA~}{~GREEK SMALL LETTER FINAL SIGMA~} {~GREEK SMALL LETTER ALPHA~}{~GREEK SMALL LETTER LAMDA~}{~GREEK SMALL LETTER OMICRON~}{~GREEK SMALL LETTER GAMMA~}{~GREEK SMALL LETTER OMICRON~}{~GREEK SMALL LETTER UPSILON~}). keywords: abstract; action; alpha~}{~greek small; body; capital letter; case; character; concept; dasia~}{~greek small; different; end; fact; far; form; general; great; hand; idea; individual; inner; kappa~}{~greek small; knowledge; known; letter alpha~; letter alpha~}{~greek; letter epsilon~; letter final; letter iota~; letter kappa~}{~greek; letter nu~; letter nu~}{~greek; letter omega; letter omicron~; letter sigma~}{~greek; letter upsilon; life; like; man; manifestation; matter; means; nature; nu~}{~greek small; object; oxia~}{~greek small; particular; perception; phenomenon; possible; present; principle; psili~}{~greek small; pure; reason; relation; sigma~}{~greek small; small letter; space; subject; suffering; sufficient; sufficient reason; thing; time; true; truth; way; world; ypogegrammeni~}{~greek small; ~greek small cache: /shared/reader-library/theory-of-knowledge/cache/38427.txt plain text: /shared/reader-library/theory-of-knowledge/txt/38427.txt item: #16 of 35 id: 39964 author: Dietzgen, Joseph title: The Positive Outcome of Philosophy The Nature of Human Brain Work. Letters on Logic. date: None words: 121938 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; different; end; existence; experience; fact; faculty; general; general nature; good; human; human mind; human understanding; infinite; intellect; knowledge; life; logic; material; matter; means; mind; natural; nature; object; order; parts; phenomena; philosophy; question; reason; right; science; sense; special; things; thought; time; true; true understanding; truth; understanding; universal; universe; way; world cache: /shared/reader-library/theory-of-knowledge/cache/39964.txt plain text: /shared/reader-library/theory-of-knowledge/txt/39964.txt item: #17 of 35 id: 40097 author: Schopenhauer, Arthur title: The World as Will and Idea (Vol. 2 of 3) date: None words: 183046 flesch: 52 summary: SMALL LETTER OMICRON~}{~GREEK SMALL LETTER UPSILON~}{~GREEK SMALL LETTER DELTA~}{~GREEK SMALL LETTER EPSILON~}{~GREEK SMALL LETTER NU~} {~GREEK SMALL LETTER EPSILON~}{~GREEK SMALL LETTER SIGMA~}{~GREEK SMALL LETTER Among other things, it is expressly said there: {~GREEK SMALL LETTER TAU~}{~GREEK SMALL LETTER OMICRON~} {~GREEK SMALL LETTER DELTA~}{~GREEK SMALL LETTER EPSILON~} {~GREEK SMALL LETTER EPSILON~}{~GREEK SMALL LETTER IOTA~}{~GREEK SMALL LETTER NU~}{~GREEK SMALL LETTER ALPHA~}{~GREEK SMALL LETTER IOTA~} {~GREEK SMALL LETTER OMICRON~}{~GREEK SMALL LETTER UPSILON~}{~GREEK SMALL LETTER KAPPA~} {~GREEK SMALL LETTER OMICRON~}{~GREEK SMALL LETTER UPSILON~}{~GREEK SMALL LETTER SIGMA~}{~GREEK SMALL LETTER IOTA~}{~GREEK SMALL LETTER ALPHA~} {~GREEK SMALL LETTER OMICRON~}{~GREEK SMALL LETTER UPSILON~}{~GREEK SMALL LETTER DELTA~}{~GREEK SMALL LETTER EPSILON~}{~GREEK SMALL LETTER NU~}{~GREEK SMALL LETTER IOTA~}, _i.e._, _existentia nunquam ad essentiam rei pertinet_. keywords: abstract; alpha~}{~greek small; brain; capital letter; case; causality; conceptions; consciousness; dasia~}{~greek small; different; example; existence; experience; fact; form; general; great; hand; idea; intellect; judgment; kant; kappa~}{~greek small; knowledge; letter alpha~}{~greek; letter chi~; letter epsilon~; letter final; letter iota~; letter kappa~}{~greek; letter nu~; letter nu~}{~greek; letter omega; letter omicron~; letter sigma~}{~greek; letter upsilon; letter xi~; like; man; matter; means; mere; nature; nu~}{~greek small; object; order; oxia~}{~greek small; perception; philosophy; possible; principle; priori; pure; reason; relation; sigma~}{~greek small; small brain; small letter; small number; space; subject; things; thought; time; true; truth; understanding; way; world; ypogegrammeni~}{~greek small; ~greek small cache: /shared/reader-library/theory-of-knowledge/cache/40097.txt plain text: /shared/reader-library/theory-of-knowledge/txt/40097.txt item: #18 of 35 id: 40341 author: Augustine, Saint, Bishop of Hippo title: King Alfred's Old English Version of St. Augustine's Soliloquies Turned into Modern English date: None words: 17514 flesch: 90 summary: Believe thine own reason, and believe Christ, the Son of God, and believe all His sayings, because they are very reliable witnesses; and believe thine own soul, which always saith to thee through its reason that it is in thee; it saith also that it is eternal, because it wisheth eternal things. I heard formerly that thou saidst that thou lovedst thy friends, next to God and thine own reason, above other things. keywords: god; know; love; thee; thou; thy cache: /shared/reader-library/theory-of-knowledge/cache/40341.txt plain text: /shared/reader-library/theory-of-knowledge/txt/40341.txt item: #19 of 35 id: 40868 author: Schopenhauer, Arthur title: The World as Will and Idea (Vol. 3 of 3) date: None words: 188790 flesch: 56 summary: 33; Col. ii. 20; Eph. ii. Lib. ii.) keywords: account; alpha~}{~greek small; brain; capital letter; case; chapter; consciousness; dasia~}{~greek small; death; dialytika~}{~greek small; different; end; example; existence; fact; far; form; general; genius; given; great; hand; human; idea; iii; individual; intellect; kappa~}{~greek small; knowledge; koronis~}{~greek small; letter alpha~; letter alpha~}{~greek; letter delta~}{~greek; letter epsilon~; letter final; letter iota~; letter kappa~}{~greek; letter lamda~; letter nu~; letter nu~}{~greek; letter omega; letter omicron; letter sigma~}{~greek; letter upsilon; letter xi~; lies; life; like; love; man; matter; means; mere; mind; mu~}{~greek; nature; nay; nu~}{~greek small; objective; order; phenomenon; philosophy; pi~}{~greek; place; point; present; psili~}{~greek small; reason; relation; sense; seq; sigma~}{~greek small; small letter; species; subject; things; thought; time; true; view; work; world; ypogegrammeni~}{~greek small; ~greek small cache: /shared/reader-library/theory-of-knowledge/cache/40868.txt plain text: /shared/reader-library/theory-of-knowledge/txt/40868.txt item: #20 of 35 id: 4280 author: Kant, Immanuel title: The Critique of Pure Reason date: None words: 215770 flesch: 42 summary: This unity, which à priori precedes all conceptions of conjunction, is not the category of unity (§ 6); for all the categories are based upon logical functions of judgement, and in these functions we already have conjunction, and consequently unity of given conceptions. I call a conception problematical which contains in itself no contradiction, and which is connected with other cognitions as a limitation of given conceptions, but whose objective reality cannot be cognized in any manner. keywords: case; certain; cognition; conception; conditions; empirical; empirical intuition; existence; experience; far; form; general; idea; intuition; knowledge; laws; means; mere; nature; necessary; object; phenomena; possibility; possible; possible experience; principles; priori; proposition; pure conceptions; pure intuition; pure reason; pure understanding; reality; relation; representation; sense; sensuous; series; space; sphere; subject; synthesis; synthetical; things; thought; time; transcendental; understanding; unity; world; � sthetic; � � cache: /shared/reader-library/theory-of-knowledge/cache/4280.txt plain text: /shared/reader-library/theory-of-knowledge/txt/4280.txt item: #21 of 35 id: 46078 author: Anonymous title: The Senses and the Mind date: None words: 48199 flesch: 56 summary: We might add greatly to this list, but we select the above merely as examples, to show how, when the acquisition of knowledge is debarred at the entrance of the eye, the mind will collect it through the inlet of other senses. The grand object for which the sense of hearing was given to man was for understanding, acquiring, and using language, or speech, for the enunciation of which the lips, the teeth, the tongue, the palate, in fact, the whole organization of the mouth and lower part of the face, is expressly modified, as is also the conformation of the larynx; but, be it observed, that without mind man could never have been a speaking animal. keywords: air; animals; atmosphere; blind; bodies; body; certain; degree; distance; earth; eye; fact; far; god; great; hand; knowledge; life; light; man; matter; mind; nerves; objects; power; sense; smell; sound; surface; taste; time; touch; water; world cache: /shared/reader-library/theory-of-knowledge/cache/46078.txt plain text: /shared/reader-library/theory-of-knowledge/txt/46078.txt item: #22 of 35 id: 4705 author: Hume, David title: A Treatise of Human Nature date: None words: 226488 flesch: 54 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; betwixt; cause; certain; common; contrary; different; effect; evident; existence; experience; force; form; general; great; human; idea; imagination; impossible; impressions; influence; interest; kind; love; manner; men; mind; natural; nature; new; object; observe; order; particular; parts; passions; perceptions; person; place; pleasure; present; pride; principles; produce; qualities; reason; reasoning; relation; sect; subject; thing; time cache: /shared/reader-library/theory-of-knowledge/cache/4705.txt plain text: /shared/reader-library/theory-of-knowledge/txt/4705.txt item: #23 of 35 id: 4723 author: Berkeley, George title: A Treatise Concerning the Principles of Human Knowledge date: None words: 37380 flesch: 57 summary: And this if I mistake not has been demonstrated in section 27; to which I shall here add that a spirit has been shown to be the only substance or support wherein unthinking beings or ideas can exist; but that this substance which supports or perceives ideas should itself be an idea or like an idea is evidently absurd. For, when we perceive certain ideas of Sense constantly followed by other ideas and WE KNOW THIS IS NOT OF OUR OWN DOING, we forthwith attribute power and agency to the ideas themselves, and make one the cause of another, than which nothing can be more absurd and unintelligible. keywords: abstract; exist; existence; general; ideas; matter; men; mind; motion; nature; particular; sense; spirit; substance; things; words cache: /shared/reader-library/theory-of-knowledge/cache/4723.txt plain text: /shared/reader-library/theory-of-knowledge/txt/4723.txt item: #24 of 35 id: 47658 author: Carr, Herbert Wildon title: The Problem of Truth date: None words: 28366 flesch: 64 summary: Neither, then, is reality truth, nor appearance error. And so the question arises, how far are our ideas about things truths about reality? keywords: error; existence; experience; false; idea; intellect; knowledge; meaning; movement; nature; problem; reality; theory; things; true; truth cache: /shared/reader-library/theory-of-knowledge/cache/47658.txt plain text: /shared/reader-library/theory-of-knowledge/txt/47658.txt item: #25 of 35 id: 52821 author: Kant, Immanuel title: Kant's Prolegomena to Any Future Metaphysics date: None words: 51150 flesch: 46 summary: And with this only are we now concerned, for besides, things which can never be objects of experience, if they must be cognised as to their nature, would oblige us to have recourse to concepts whose meaning could never be given in concreto (by any example of possible experience). But it has just been shown that the laws of nature can never be cognised a priori in objects so far as they are considered not in reference to possible experience, but as things in themselves. keywords: concept; experience; judgments; mere; metaphysics; nature; possible; possible experience; principles; priori; pure; pure reason; reason; science; sense; space; things; understanding cache: /shared/reader-library/theory-of-knowledge/cache/52821.txt plain text: /shared/reader-library/theory-of-knowledge/txt/52821.txt item: #26 of 35 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: 130732 flesch: 56 summary: Thus, if instead of saying, _that in war the weaker have always recourse to negociation_, 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, 'tis only by custom they can become general in their representation, and contain an infinite number of other ideas under them. keywords: belief; betwixt; cause; certain; contrary; different; effect; existence; experience; force; form; general; hume; idea; imagination; impossible; impression; manner; mind; nature; new; objects; order; particular; parts; perceptions; present; principles; qualities; reason; reasoning; relation; rousseau; senses; thing; thought; time; tis cache: /shared/reader-library/theory-of-knowledge/cache/53791.txt plain text: /shared/reader-library/theory-of-knowledge/txt/53791.txt item: #27 of 35 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: 160802 flesch: 54 summary: But however the case may stand with other passions and impressions, 'tis certain that pride requires the assistance of some foreign object, and that the organs which produce it exert not themselves like the heart and arteries, by an original internal movement. _Terror, consternation, astonishment, anxiety_, and other passions of that kind, are nothing but different species and degrees of fear. keywords: actions; cause; certain; common; contrary; different; effect; evident; force; general; good; great; hatred; human; humility; ideas; imagination; influence; interest; justice; kind; love; manner; men; mind; natural; nature; new; object; order; particular; passions; person; pleasure; present; pride; principles; produce; property; qualities; reason; regard; relation; society; sympathy; time; tis; virtue cache: /shared/reader-library/theory-of-knowledge/cache/53792.txt plain text: /shared/reader-library/theory-of-knowledge/txt/53792.txt item: #28 of 35 id: 5500 author: Bacon, Francis title: The Advancement of Learning date: None words: 86760 flesch: 38 summary: The derogations therefore which grow to learning from the fortune or condition of learned men, are either in respect of scarcity of means, or in respect of privateness of life and meanness of employments. (2) Concerning want, and that it is the case of learned men usually to begin with little, and not to grow rich so fast as other men, by reason they convert not their labours chiefly to lucre and increase, it were good to leave the commonplace in commendation of povery to some friar to handle, to whom much was attributed by Machiavel in this point when he said, â��That the kingdom of the clergy had been long before at an end, if the reputation and reverence towards the poverty of friars had not borne out the scandal of the superfluities and excesses of bishops and prelates.â�� What price and estimation he had learning in doth notably appear in these three particulars: first, in the envy he used to express that he bare towards Achilles, in this, that he had so good a trumpet of his praises as Homerâ��s verses; secondly, in the judgment or solution he gave touching that precious cabinet of Darius, which was found among his jewels (whereof question was made what thing was worthy to be put into it, and he gave his opinion for Homerâ��s works); thirdly, in his letter to Aristotle, after he had set forth his books of nature, wherein he expostulateth with him for publishing the secrets or mysteries of philosophy; and gave him to understand that himself esteemed it more to excel other men in learning and knowledge than in power and empire. keywords: ancient; better; body; books; causes; divine; doth; fortune; godâ �; good; great; hath; history; judgment; kind; knowledge; learned; learning; life; like; man; manâ; matter; men; mind; natural; nature; non; opinion; particular; parts; philosophy; place; reason; saith; sciences; seemeth; set; speech; state; things; times; touching; true; truth; use; virtue; whereof; wisdom; words; work; world; � � cache: /shared/reader-library/theory-of-knowledge/cache/5500.txt plain text: /shared/reader-library/theory-of-knowledge/txt/5500.txt item: #29 of 35 id: 55046 author: Spencer, Herbert title: First Principles date: None words: 81636 flesch: 50 summary: Even where the moving body is massive, it only requires that great force should be applied to get a sensible effect of like kind: instance the screw of a screw-steamer, which instead of a smooth rotation falls into a rapid rhythm that sends a tremor through the whole vessel. The alternatives are, to deny the persistence of force, or to admit that every physical and psychial change is generated by certain antecedent forces, and that from given amounts of such forces neither more nor less of such physical and psychial changes can result. keywords: action; aggregate; body; cause; certain; changes; conditions; different; direction; effects; equilibrium; evolution; forces; form; general; great; greater; heat; incident; like; matter; molecular; motion; movements; moving; parts; place; process; produce; resistance; results; state; things; time; truth; units; unlike; water; � � cache: /shared/reader-library/theory-of-knowledge/cache/55046.txt plain text: /shared/reader-library/theory-of-knowledge/txt/55046.txt item: #30 of 35 id: 55761 author: Steiner, Rudolf title: The Philosophy of Spiritual Activity A Modern Philosophy of Life Developed by Scientific Methods date: None words: 91133 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. Other concepts based on particular objects fuse completely with one another. keywords: action; activity; concept; consciousness; content; ego; existence; experience; free; given; human; ideas; individual; knowledge; life; man; moral; nature; object; perception; percepts; pleasure; point; process; reality; self; theory; thinking; thought; view; way; world cache: /shared/reader-library/theory-of-knowledge/cache/55761.txt plain text: /shared/reader-library/theory-of-knowledge/txt/55761.txt item: #31 of 35 id: 57998 author: Fullerton, George Stuart title: On Sameness and Identity: A Psychological Study Being a Contribution to the Foundations of a Theory of Knowledge date: None words: 52577 flesch: 67 summary: I have said that when a man abandons his original unreflective position and learns to distinguish between things immediately known and other things they are supposed to represent, he goes on using the common language, and talking as though there were but one thing under consideration. It remains, of course, to notice here, as in the case of the noumenal self, that any sense of the word same which has reference not so much to the things under discussion as to the relations of these things to other things, may, if self and not-self differ as to these relations, be applicable to the one and not to the other. keywords: body; consciousness; element; existence; ideas; kind; known; man; mind; object; real; sameness; self; sense; things; thought; word cache: /shared/reader-library/theory-of-knowledge/cache/57998.txt plain text: /shared/reader-library/theory-of-knowledge/txt/57998.txt item: #32 of 35 id: 5827 author: Russell, Bertrand title: The Problems of Philosophy date: None words: 43329 flesch: 62 summary: 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. The problem arises through the fact that such knowledge is general, whereas all experience is particular. keywords: belief; certain; data; fact; knowledge; mind; object; physical; relation; sense; table; things; true; truth cache: /shared/reader-library/theory-of-knowledge/cache/5827.txt plain text: /shared/reader-library/theory-of-knowledge/txt/5827.txt item: #33 of 35 id: 62856 author: Hume, David title: A Treatise of Human Nature Being an Attempt to Introduce the Experimental Method Into Moral Subjects; and Dialogues Concerning Natural Religion date: None words: 190243 flesch: 63 summary: Throughout the introductions to Volumes I. and II., except where the contrary is stated, â��Humeâ�� must be understood to mean Hume as represented by the â��Treatise on Human Nature.â�� In taking this as intrinsically the best representation of his philosophy, we may be thought to have overlooked the well-known advertisement which (in an edition posthumously published) he prefixed to the volume containing his â��Inquiries concerning the Human Understanding and the Principles of Morals.â�� Lockeâ��s way of interchanging â��ideaâ�� and â��qualityâ�� and its effects. keywords: anotherâ �; cause.â �; evil.â �; existenceâ �; godâ �; idea â; understanding.â �; â �; � agreement; � answer; � belief; � body; � book; � compound; � consideration; � contiguity; � desire; � disposition; � dissertation; � hume; � idea; � identity; � impression; � knowledge; � locke; � minimum; � observation; � p.; � particular; � particularity; � perception; � philosophy; � pleasure; � proof; � propensity; � real; � relation; � scepticism; � sensation; � space; � substance; � succession; � system; � tendency; � � cache: /shared/reader-library/theory-of-knowledge/cache/62856.txt plain text: /shared/reader-library/theory-of-knowledge/txt/62856.txt item: #34 of 35 id: 6336 author: Stephen, Karin title: The Misuse of Mind date: None words: 24756 flesch: 49 summary: Thus a quality is once, and a â��real thingâ�� is twice, removed from actual fact, and the more energetically we pursue the intellectual work of abstraction the further we get from the fact itself from which we began. â��Thingsâ�� are a stage further removed from actual fact than qualities are since, while qualities are classes of facts, â��thingsâ�� are only classes of qualities. keywords: abstractions; actual; actual fact; bergson; fact; knowledge; matter; qualities; � � cache: /shared/reader-library/theory-of-knowledge/cache/6336.txt plain text: /shared/reader-library/theory-of-knowledge/txt/6336.txt item: #35 of 35 id: 9662 author: Hume, David title: An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding date: None words: 58008 flesch: 54 summary: 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. As to past _Experience_, it can be allowed to give _direct_ and _certain_ information of those precise objects only, and that precise period of time, which fell under its cognizance: but why this experience should be extended to future times, and to other objects, which for aught we know, may be only in appearance similar; this is the main question on which I would insist. keywords: actions; cause; connexion; different; effect; event; experience; fact; human; ideas; life; matter; men; mind; natural; nature; objects; particular; philosophy; power; present; principles; reason; reasoning; senses; testimony cache: /shared/reader-library/theory-of-knowledge/cache/9662.txt plain text: /shared/reader-library/theory-of-knowledge/txt/9662.txt