Category: Reading
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Perspective
“Knowledge is ultimate. There can be no explanation of the ‘ Why ‘ of knowledge ; we can only describe the ‘ What ‘ of knowledge . Namely we can analyse the content and it’s internal relations , but we cannot explain why there is knowledge. Thus causal nature is a metaphysical chimera ; though […]
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Position
” In all discussions of Nature we must remember the differences of scale, and in particular the differences of time-span. We are apt to take modes of observable functioning of the human body as setting an absolute scale. It is extremely rash to extend conclusions derived from observation far beyond the scale of magnitude to […]
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Rotation
” In order to perceive fullness , one must retain an acute sense of emptiness which marks it off ; conversely , in order to perceive emptiness , one must apprehend other zones of the word as full. ” -Susan Sontag
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Circle
” Meanwhile science as technique was building up in practical men a quite different outlook from any that was to be found among theretical philosphers. Technique conferred a sense of power : man is now much less at the mercy of his environment than he was in former times. But the power conferred by technique […]
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Composition
” The mind is a kind of theatre , where several perceptions successively make their appearance ; pass , repass , glide away , and mingle in an infinite variety of postures and situations. There is properly no simplicity in it at one time , nor identity in different ; whatever natural propension we may […]
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Reflection
‘ If perception are distinct existences, they form a whole only by being connected together. But no connexions among distinct existences are ever discover by human understanding. We only feel a connexion or determination of thought, to pass from one object to another. It follows, therefore that the thought alone finds personal identity, when reflecting […]