An Essay in Refutation of Agnosticism And the Philosophy of the Unknowable a R
An Essay in Refutation of Agnosticism And the Philosophy of the Unknowable a R
Simon Fitz Simons
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It is the pivot on which turn his views of cognition. It is the sum and sub- stance of his philosophy, and the basis of all agnosticism. I give the entire passage in full. The italics are mine. I " To sum up, we must say of conceptions in general, that they are complete only when the attributes of the object conceived are of such a number and kind that they can be represented in consciousness so nearly at the same time as to seem all present together; that as the objects conceived become larger... and more complex, some of the attributes first thought of fade from con- sciousness before the rest have been represented, and the conception thus becomes imperfect; that when the size, complexity, or discreteness of the object conceived becomes very great, only a small portion of its attributes can be thought of at once, and the conception formed of it thus becomes so inadequate as to form a mere symbol; that nevertheless such symbolic conceptions which are indispensable in general thinking are legiti- mate provided that by some cumulative or indirect process of thought, or by the fulfillment of predictions based on them, we can assure ourselves that they stand I First Principles, § 9.
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