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India: Her Cult and Education Series. The Approaches to Truth

1914

So far my study of the concrete 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—thought of a many and a sum is a unity and a whole the idea of a configuration is not a configuration the [...] 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 [...] Hence the total tension of e=a-E-ci b. Of the three components of the total tension a and d belong to the same kind as both are due to special directions and determintions of consciousness ; the tension b is of another kind as it is due to the difference of level between R' on the one hand and P and R on the other. [...] 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 ; ag
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Pages
463
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India
SARF Document ID
sarf.143781
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Frontmatter
i-iii Pramatha Mukhopadhaya view
Preface
i-iv Pramatha Mukhopadhaya view
Fact as Continuum
1-7 Pramatha Mukhopadhaya view
Subject and Object fused together in the Fact-Stuf
7-25 Pramatha Mukhopadhaya view
Treatment of the Fact-Stuf
25-38 Pramatha Mukhopadhaya view
Fact Quiescence
38-57 Pramatha Mukhopadhaya view
Meaning of Quiescence
57-60 Pramatha Mukhopadhaya view
Experience as a Resultant
60-92 Pramatha Mukhopadhaya view
General Nature of Fact-operations
92-133 Pramatha Mukhopadhaya view
General Law of Fact-operation
133-170 Pramatha Mukhopadhaya view
The Veil of the Fact
170-198 Pramatha Mukhopadhaya view
The Veil as a variable
199-259 Pramatha Mukhopadhaya view
The Infinite and Infinitesimal Facts
259-321 Pramatha Mukhopadhaya view
The Poles of the Fact and the Triad
321-351 Pramatha Mukhopadhaya view
Fact and Motion
352-385 Pramatha Mukhopadhaya view
Fact and Mathematics
385-400 Pramatha Mukhopadhaya view
Fact and Consciousness
400-442 Pramatha Mukhopadhaya view
Backmatter
i-ii Pramatha Mukhopadhaya view

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