The Nature of Metaphysical ThinkingMacmillan & Company Limited, 1945 - 238 pages |
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... intrinsic nature of being other than our minds ; idealism in so far as it claims that the nature of being can be understood uni- vocally through developing the categories of thought ; and 66 tions , then the statements follow as their ...
... intrinsic nature of being other than our minds ; idealism in so far as it claims that the nature of being can be understood uni- vocally through developing the categories of thought ; and 66 tions , then the statements follow as their ...
Page 86
... intrinsic nature of a " thing " . But we need the concept , or something like it , as a testimony to the conviction that scientific thinking is concerned with something besides a nexus of logical relations . It is concerned with seeing ...
... intrinsic nature of a " thing " . But we need the concept , or something like it , as a testimony to the conviction that scientific thinking is concerned with something besides a nexus of logical relations . It is concerned with seeing ...
Page 102
... intrinsic nature of the world beyond us . The transcendent is thus beyond our categories . From the deep emotional grasp of this comes the religious sense of the Wholly Other , the qualitative break between man and God , and the problem ...
... intrinsic nature of the world beyond us . The transcendent is thus beyond our categories . From the deep emotional grasp of this comes the religious sense of the Wholly Other , the qualitative break between man and God , and the problem ...
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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