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... ness of phenomena , is proved to us , as I pointed out , in every act of remembrance . Since the fact , and the remembrance of the fact , are sep- arated from each other by a certain interval of time , and since , in recollection , we ...
... ness of phenomena , is proved to us , as I pointed out , in every act of remembrance . Since the fact , and the remembrance of the fact , are sep- arated from each other by a certain interval of time , and since , in recollection , we ...
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... ness , in all knowledge - as Spencer says - there must necessarily be this union of subject and object . " But , " he continues , " what is the corol- lary of this doctrine , as bearing on the conscious- ness of self ? The mental act in ...
... ness , in all knowledge - as Spencer says - there must necessarily be this union of subject and object . " But , " he continues , " what is the corol- lary of this doctrine , as bearing on the conscious- ness of self ? The mental act in ...
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... ness , the personal element is not less certain , but infinitely more certain , than the impersonal . I may be mistaken about sensations ; for example , I may fancy I see blue , when in reality what I see is green . I may be mistaken ...
... ness , the personal element is not less certain , but infinitely more certain , than the impersonal . I may be mistaken about sensations ; for example , I may fancy I see blue , when in reality what I see is green . I may be mistaken ...
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... ness is concerned , there is no possibility of confusion . I never mistake my own soul for any one else's , nor any one else's soul for my own . Of course I cannot picture my soul in imagination . It would not be a soul if I could : it ...
... ness is concerned , there is no possibility of confusion . I never mistake my own soul for any one else's , nor any one else's soul for my own . Of course I cannot picture my soul in imagination . It would not be a soul if I could : it ...
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... ness of hearing and of touch . And what is true of one sense is true of all . " It is not even probable that the mind has any kind of relation to the body , which it might not have to any other foreign matter formed into instruments of ...
... ness of hearing and of touch . And what is true of one sense is true of all . " It is not even probable that the mind has any kind of relation to the body , which it might not have to any other foreign matter formed into instruments of ...
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