A Theory of Reality; An Essay in Metaphysical System Upon the Basis of Human Cognitive Experience
A Theory of Reality; An Essay in Metaphysical System Upon the Basis of Human Cognitive Experience
George Trumbull Ladd
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*' and ^^ In what is the three-dimensioned being of space spread out?" It seems to us, however, to promise a better motived and conducted course of criticism, if we begin by accepting the confession of everybody that, somehow, space and time are like " media '^ for the orderly arrangement of existences, of changes, and of relations. And, in truth, what the common-sense of folk generally, and of the student of physical science in particular, objects to Digitized by Google 182 A THEORY OF REALITY... having concluded by the metaphysicians is an affair of quite another kind. Minds and things are entities, — so the aver- age man thinks; changes actually occur in them, and rela- tions actually exist between them. Just as firmly does the popular and naive consciousness insist on the conviction that time and space have something to tell us about the Nature of Reality. And when reality is spoken of in connection with the conceptions of time and space, its meaning does not corre- spond to what Kant meant by " phenomenal reality." The cognitive consciousness of ^ mankind refuses to credit the doctrine of the merely subjective origin and applicability of time and space.
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