The New Realism : Cooperative Studies in Philosophy
The New Realism : Cooperative Studies in Philosophy
Edwin B Edwin Bissell Holt
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To assign it any other position would be like trying to assign to the number 3 a position in the number series between 528 and 529. (I know that some subjectivists declare with their usual license that this can be done, but before they stake great hopes on doing it I urge that they actually try and then report to us from time to time on progress made. One can place orange in space among the reddish purples, but it hits back at one because the spatial order has been made discrepant with the 'int...rinsic,' logical color order.) And the case is the same with grays, with auditory pitches and timbers, with warmth and cold sensations, to some extent (which increases with careful study) with tastes and odors: the same thing is true of all intensities in whatever field of sensation. Now why, asks Brentano, is this relation of similarity so rigid 1 Leipng, 1907. Digitized by LjOOQIC 332 ILLUSORY EXPERIENCE and inexorable? The reply has often been that the question admits of no answer, that namely this qualitative similarity is an ultimate, imanalyzable category; the very answer that for centuries was made regarding the similarities between plant and animal species and between chemical substances.
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