 | Sir William Hamilton - First philosophy - 1859 - 752 pages
...determines the existence, and specifies the character of the existence, of the intellectual energy. An act of knowledge existing and being what it is...example, I see the inkstand. How can I be conscious that mj present modification exists, — that it is a perception, and not another mental state, — that... | |
 | 1861 - 824 pages
...determines the existence, and specifies the character of the existence of the intellectual energy. An act of knowledge existing and being what it is...can be known in consciousness to the exclusion of the object, is impossible. For example : I see the inkstand. How can I be conscious that my present... | |
 | John Stuart Mill - Philosophy - 1865 - 578 pages
...equally true of an act of belief: and it must be as " manifest" of the one act as of the other, " that it can be known only through the object to which it is correlative." Therefore past events, distant objects, and the Absolute, inasmuch as they are believed, are as much... | |
 | John Stuart Mill - Knowledge, Theory of - 1865 - 342 pages
...true of an act of belief: and it must be as " manifest " of the one act as of the other,. " that it can be known only through the object to which it is correlative." Therefore past events, distant objects, and the Absolute, inasmuch as they are believed, are as much... | |
 | John Stuart Mill - 1865 - 578 pages
...true of an act of belief: and it must be as " manifest " of the one act as of the other, " that it can be known only through the object to which it is correlative." Therefore past events, distant objects, and the Absolute, inasmuch as they are believed, are as much... | |
 | John Stuart Mill - Philosophy - 1867 - 664 pages
...remembering its contents without " being conscious of these contents remembered — and so "forth." "An act* of knowledge existing and being " what it...through the object to " which it is correlative ; and Reid1s supposition that an " operation can be known in consciousness to the ex" elusion of its object,... | |
 | Sir William Hamilton - First philosophy - 1872 - 578 pages
...determines the existence, and specifies the character of the existence, of the intellectual energy. An act of knowledge existing, and being what it is,...operation can be known in consciousness to the exclusion oP its object, is impossible. For example, I see the inkstand. How can I be conscious that my present... | |
 | Sir William Hamilton - First philosophy - 1872 - 588 pages
...determines the existence, and specifies the character of the existence, of the intellectual energy. An act of knowledge existing, and being what it is,...act can be known only through the object to which it'is correlative ; and Reid's supposition, that an operation can be known in consciousness to the... | |
 | John Stuart Mill - Philosophy - 1874 - 342 pages
...remembering its contents without being conscious of these contents remembered — and so forth." " An act f of knowledge existing and being what it is only by...exclusion of its object, is impossible. For example, I sec the inkstand. How can I be conscious that my present modification exists, — that it is a pereeption,... | |
 | John Veitch - 1882 - 290 pages
...equally true of an act of Belief ; and it must be as manifest of the one act as of the other, ' that it can be known only through the object to which it is correlative.' Therefore, past events, distant objects, . . . inasmuch as they are believed, are as much objects of... | |
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An act of knowledge existing and being what it is only by relation to its object, it is manifest that the act can be known only through the object to which it is correlative; and Reid's supposition that an operation can be known in consciousness to the... 
