Philosophy of Knowledge: An Inquiry Into the Nature, Limits, And Validity of Human Cognitive Faculty
Philosophy of Knowledge: An Inquiry Into the Nature, Limits, And Validity of Human Cognitive Faculty
George Trumbull Ladd
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And should he venture upon the hard task of giving to these formulas the most scientific representation possible, — for example, in a learned treatise upon physics or chemistry, — he is likely to begin by confessing that "what Matter really is," we do not know, and probably never shall know. At this point it belongs to the thinker who sees beyond physics into metaphysics, to relieve the physicist from the burden of his excessive modesty by pointing out to him that we can tell what any "subjects... of states" really are, only by telling what they most uniformly and consistently do ; and then to reveal the profound truth that all the choicest, most impersonal terms for even the physical characteristics of matter, if any mean- ing realizable in experience is to be given to them, must be recognized as abstractions from the immediate experience of the Self with itself. KNOWLEDGE OF THINGS AND OF SELF 219 Before this view of the Bignificant difference between the knowledge of Things and the knowledge of Self is enforced by instancing a few of the more important particulars, atten- tion is called to the popular way of looking upon the entire problem.
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