The Nature of Metaphysical ThinkingMacmillan & Company Limited, 1945 - 238 pages |
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Page 39
... activity and of intersubjective intercourse . In the young days of Logical Positivism , phenomenalism was reduced to a method of correlating private sense data , and so ended in solipsism combined with a behaviourist account of the ...
... activity and of intersubjective intercourse . In the young days of Logical Positivism , phenomenalism was reduced to a method of correlating private sense data , and so ended in solipsism combined with a behaviourist account of the ...
Page 61
... activity . Mind is thus not a separate entity " decoding " messages received through the bodily nervous system , but an originative form of activity arising out of these physical activities , and through them in contact with the ...
... activity . Mind is thus not a separate entity " decoding " messages received through the bodily nervous system , but an originative form of activity arising out of these physical activities , and through them in contact with the ...
Page 63
... activity is concerned with indirect constructions as well as with emphasis and elimination . Conscious thought goes ... activity which interprets in symbolic form is dependent on data supplied through the underlying mode of activity ...
... activity is concerned with indirect constructions as well as with emphasis and elimination . Conscious thought goes ... activity which interprets in symbolic form is dependent on data supplied through the underlying mode of activity ...
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A. N. WHITEHEAD absolute abstract awareness becomes called Cassirer categorical proposition character claim co-ordinated coherence concepts concerned concrete universal conscious constructions Cosmological Argument depends Descartes described developed distinction drawn elements empirical ence existence express fact faith forms of thought function Gestalt Gestalt theory Hegel Hence human idealism idealist ideas intellectual interpretation intrinsic nature judgments of importance kind knowledge logical mathematical matter mean merely metaphysical analogies metaphysical theory mind mode models naïve realism natural theology neo-orthodox notion objects organism pattern percipient activity perspective phenomenal phenomenalist philosophy physical feelings physiological possible prehension presuppositions principle Professor Professor Price propositions question realissimum reality relation relationship religion religious symbolism response revelation scientific scientific models seek sensations sense data sense perception sensory significant spirit structure suggest symbolic forms theologian things Thomist Thomist philosophy tion total assertion tradition transcendent truth universe Whitehead whole word