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The Approaches to Truth

1914

So far my study of the ci)ncrete fact of perception has disclosed these features : To intuition Fact is a. curiously complex one and not a manifold a synthesis : even while the fact is being conceived as an actual configuration of distinct points or features the thought is one and not a sum—thouglA of a many and a sum is a unity and a whole the idea of a configuration is not a configuration [...] Does not the meanest thing in the universe thus carry a thought too deep already for philosophy ? In the second place the differentiation of a vivid zone in perception from outlying zones of vanising psychic tone the seizing upon merely the crest of an wave of fact as distinguished from the wave as a whole the noting of the definite outlines of a picture in contrast with a more or less blurr [...] Is an unsteady sense-experience like the one just described more quiescent than the calm abiding image for example the image of the face of a departed friend ? Is the experience of an anxious breathless chase more peaceful than the forming settling image of a Sorting Demon in the brain of a Clerk Maxwell or the image of the Ocean of primordial nebula in the mind of a Kant ? A full discussion [...] The interpretation of the symbol will be this : A representative experience is itself a presentative fact which is especially emphasised at the image or idea of a given experience ; as a fact of experience it is evidently larger than the image or idea of the given experience : when I am thinking of a tree my entire experience of the moment is not equi-( 64 ) valent to the thought of the tree ; aga [...] Even after the thought of hollowness has come the idea of Shelley can be made to appear hollow by the side of the cloud only by subsuming the latter under the family of the former's object (the actual poet) or by extending the conception of the family so as to include the cloud and other sense-experiences.
humanities general
Pages
463
Published in
India
SARF Document ID
sarf.141726
Segment Pages Author Actions
Preface
i-vii Pramatha Mukhopadhaya view
Fact as Continuum
1-7 unknown view
Subject and Object Fused Together in the Fact-Stuff
7-25 unknown view
Treatment of the Fact-Stuff
25-38 unknown view
Fact Quiescence
38-57 unknown view
Meaning of Quiescence
57-60 unknown view
Experience as a Resultant
60-92 unknown view
General Nature of Fact-Operations
92-133 unknown view
General Law of Fact-Operation
133-170 unknown view
The Veil of the Fact
170-198 unknown view
The Veil as a Variable
199-259 unknown view
The Infinite and Infinitesimal Facts
259-321 unknown view
The Poles of the Fact and the Triad
321-351 unknown view
Fact and Motion
352-385 unknown view
Fact and Mathematics
385-400 unknown view
Fact and Consciousness
400-442 unknown view
Backmatter
i-ii unknown view

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