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Description:Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: CHAPTER II. EXPEEIENCE AND REALITY. F. H. Bradley, in his ingenious and suggestive work,1 draws a distinction between the world of relation and distinction on the one hand, and that of the Absolute on the other, designating the first Appearance, the second Reality. He also identifies experience with reality. This brings up the whole question as to the nature of reality, and its relation to conscious experience. No term in philosophy, not even experience itself, has been employed more vaguely than that of reality. Everyone except a few sceptics knows that there is reality, but to tell what it is, that is a question of another order, and involves the whole problem of philosophy. Now, there are certain propositions about reality, a criti- cism of which may perhaps pave the way to an intelligent consideration of the main question as to its nature. In the first place, we may say with the pure phenomenist that the real is what exists; that reality and existence are identical. It would follow, then, that everything that is real also / exists. But the existent is the actual, and the actual' - excludes the merely possible, the hypothetical, or the neces- v sary. Modern logic, however, has demonstrated that the majority of our general propositions fall into the latter categories. It follows logically, then, that the majority of propositions which we regard as true, are unreal, and that 1 Appearance and Reality, 2nd Ed., London and New York, 1897. only historical statements and statements about matter of fact can be regarded as real. And outside of logic the case is even worse. If the real is strictly identical with the existent, then we must exclude the possible, and say that strength that is not in exercise is unreal, and that we do not really know the multiplication table ...We have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with Foundations of Knowledge; In Three Parts. To get started finding Foundations of Knowledge; In Three Parts, you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed.
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Pages: 168

Format: PDF, EPUB & Kindle Edition

Publisher: General Books

Release: 2012

ISBN: 0217478492

Description: Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: CHAPTER II. EXPEEIENCE AND REALITY. F. H. Bradley, in his ingenious and suggestive work,1 draws a distinction between the world of relation and distinction on the one hand, and that of the Absolute on the other, designating the first Appearance, the second Reality. He also identifies experience with reality. This brings up the whole question as to the nature of reality, and its relation to conscious experience. No term in philosophy, not even experience itself, has been employed more vaguely than that of reality. Everyone except a few sceptics knows that there is reality, but to tell what it is, that is a question of another order, and involves the whole problem of philosophy. Now, there are certain propositions about reality, a criti- cism of which may perhaps pave the way to an intelligent consideration of the main question as to its nature. In the first place, we may say with the pure phenomenist that the real is what exists; that reality and existence are identical. It would follow, then, that everything that is real also / exists. But the existent is the actual, and the actual' - excludes the merely possible, the hypothetical, or the neces- v sary. Modern logic, however, has demonstrated that the majority of our general propositions fall into the latter categories. It follows logically, then, that the majority of propositions which we regard as true, are unreal, and that 1 Appearance and Reality, 2nd Ed., London and New York, 1897. only historical statements and statements about matter of fact can be regarded as real. And outside of logic the case is even worse. If the real is strictly identical with the existent, then we must exclude the possible, and say that strength that is not in exercise is unreal, and that we do not really know the multiplication table ...We have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with Foundations of Knowledge; In Three Parts. To get started finding Foundations of Knowledge; In Three Parts, you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed.
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