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Image 1 of Blackwell Family Papers: Alice Stone Blackwell Papers, 1848-1957; Miscellany.; Class notes; By Blackwell; … Miscellany Class Notes METAPHYSICS- Contributor: Blackwell Family
- Date: 1848
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Image 2 of Blackwell Family Papers: Alice Stone Blackwell Papers, 1848-1957; Miscellany.; Class notes; By Blackwell; … Alice Stone Blackwell 20 Beacon St Boston Jan 1881- Contributor: Blackwell Family
- Date: 1848
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Image 3 of Blackwell Family Papers: Alice Stone Blackwell Papers, 1848-1957; Miscellany.; Class notes; By Blackwell; … Metaphysics 1- Contributor: Blackwell Family
- Date: 1848
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Image 4 of Blackwell Family Papers: Alice Stone Blackwell Papers, 1848-1957; Miscellany.; Class notes; By Blackwell; … 1 Metaphysics Introduction Philosophic study centres around two questions 1 How is knowledge possible 2 What is the true nature of reality The first question deals with the knowing subject the aim…- Contributor: Blackwell Family
- Date: 1848
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Image 5 of Blackwell Family Papers: Alice Stone Blackwell Papers, 1848-1957; Miscellany.; Class notes; By Blackwell; … 2 consistent with itself But the skeptic his allies bar our way we dismiss them with the following considerations In a sense knowledge is universally subjective for knowing consists not in being…- Contributor: Blackwell Family
- Date: 1848
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Image 6 of Blackwell Family Papers: Alice Stone Blackwell Papers, 1848-1957; Miscellany.; Class notes; By Blackwell; … 4 thoughts have only relative validity there would still be need of metaphysical discussion For these basal thoughts are not clearly conceived are not harmonious So long then as our mental life…- Contributor: Blackwell Family
- Date: 1848
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Image 7 of Blackwell Family Papers: Alice Stone Blackwell Papers, 1848-1957; Miscellany.; Class notes; By Blackwell; … 6 this selfevidence can be tested only the reason now within us What then is our method It is plain that all study assumes a certain trust of reason in itself This…- Contributor: Blackwell Family
- Date: 1848
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Image 8 of Blackwell Family Papers: Alice Stone Blackwell Papers, 1848-1957; Miscellany.; Class notes; By Blackwell; … 8 the common factor in a number of individuals Thus the concept of a triangle is that of a plane figure bounded by three straight lines As such it represents neither a…- Contributor: Blackwell Family
- Date: 1848
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Image 9 of Blackwell Family Papers: Alice Stone Blackwell Papers, 1848-1957; Miscellany.; Class notes; By Blackwell; … 10 what the thing is not to make it The notion of pure being cannot exist objectively It is also useless if it could The notion of pure being when found must…- Contributor: Blackwell Family
- Date: 1848
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Image 10 of Blackwell Family Papers: Alice Stone Blackwell Papers, 1848-1957; Miscellany.; Class notes; By Blackwell; … 12 one from the other Otherwise there would be no more ground for saying that a thing exists than for saying that is does not exist Common sense would at first be…- Contributor: Blackwell Family
- Date: 1848
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Image 11 of Blackwell Family Papers: Alice Stone Blackwell Papers, 1848-1957; Miscellany.; Class notes; By Blackwell; … 14 supplies the being a swarm of forces which do the the work But this thought is swamped in its inner inconsistency The fact is an agent this is active through and…- Contributor: Blackwell Family
- Date: 1848
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Image 12 of Blackwell Family Papers: Alice Stone Blackwell Papers, 1848-1957; Miscellany.; Class notes; By Blackwell; … 16 The last scruple mentioned enables us to express our own view in a nutshell The common view is that being is a sort of universal stuff which absolutely exists and things…- Contributor: Blackwell Family
- Date: 1848
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Image 13 of Blackwell Family Papers: Alice Stone Blackwell Papers, 1848-1957; Miscellany.; Class notes; By Blackwell; … 18 Chapter II The Nature of Things When we ask what is the nature of being we may mean two things First what is its nature as distinct from nonbeing Second what…- Contributor: Blackwell Family
- Date: 1848
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Image 14 of Blackwell Family Papers: Alice Stone Blackwell Papers, 1848-1957; Miscellany.; Class notes; By Blackwell; … 20 we are on highway to agnosticism the intellect This notion of a thing with various changing states underlies most of our spontaneous metaphysics of our philosophical puzzles Like the notion of…- Contributor: Blackwell Family
- Date: 1848
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Image 15 of Blackwell Family Papers: Alice Stone Blackwell Papers, 1848-1957; Miscellany.; Class notes; By Blackwell; … 22 Intuitional qualities cant express the essence of a thing In this sense qualities cannot express the essence of a thing We have seen that changeless things explain nothing qualities in this…- Contributor: Blackwell Family
- Date: 1848
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Image 16 of Blackwell Family Papers: Alice Stone Blackwell Papers, 1848-1957; Miscellany.; Class notes; By Blackwell; … 24 sense has to making this universal is based upon the false notion of passive inert being Of course we do not know how a law can be set in reality but…- Contributor: Blackwell Family
- Date: 1848
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Image 17 of Blackwell Family Papers: Alice Stone Blackwell Papers, 1848-1957; Miscellany.; Class notes; By Blackwell; … 26 Can this permanence be retained that permanence must be denied being reduced to process or rather that the process alone is permanent The source of difficulty is the fact of change…- Contributor: Blackwell Family
- Date: 1848
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Image 18 of Blackwell Family Papers: Alice Stone Blackwell Papers, 1848-1957; Miscellany.; Class notes; By Blackwell; … 28 If not thought is brought to a standstill It must be extended to thought relations as well as to being thus the universe becomes a rigid store The alleged contradictions in…- Contributor: Blackwell Family
- Date: 1848
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Image 19 of Blackwell Family Papers: Alice Stone Blackwell Papers, 1848-1957; Miscellany.; Class notes; By Blackwell; … 30 made We find then that the doctrine of becoming is not selfcontradictory It only remains to inquire whether the facts call for it Our problem then returns Can change identity be…- Contributor: Blackwell Family
- Date: 1848
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Image 20 of Blackwell Family Papers: Alice Stone Blackwell Papers, 1848-1957; Miscellany.; Class notes; By Blackwell; … 32 change from being But may we not eliminate identity from change Since the time of Heraclitus this view has been held but it is intelligible possible only because it is false…- Contributor: Blackwell Family
- Date: 1848
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Image 21 of Blackwell Family Papers: Alice Stone Blackwell Papers, 1848-1957; Miscellany.; Class notes; By Blackwell; … 34 itself alone Misled by the Aristotelian notion of potentiality spectators have assumed that Aâ Aâ c exist preformed potentially in A But this only means that A is such not that…- Contributor: Blackwell Family
- Date: 1848
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Image 22 of Blackwell Family Papers: Alice Stone Blackwell Papers, 1848-1957; Miscellany.; Class notes; By Blackwell; … 36 we call law That being is process does not forbid that the process should be in a fixed direction form we conceive it as such Whether it might also proceed in…- Contributor: Blackwell Family
- Date: 1848
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Image 23 of Blackwell Family Papers: Alice Stone Blackwell Papers, 1848-1957; Miscellany.; Class notes; By Blackwell; … 38 which cannot be construed but must be recognized Indeed the ontological categories by which we seek to interpret being are only shadows of the living form of personal life Being change…- Contributor: Blackwell Family
- Date: 1848
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Image 24 of Blackwell Family Papers: Alice Stone Blackwell Papers, 1848-1957; Miscellany.; Class notes; By Blackwell; … 40 primary meaning ground consequence have a secondary one By cause we always mean an agent of some sort but there must be some ground why the agent acts as it does…- Contributor: Blackwell Family
- Date: 1848
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Image 25 of Blackwell Family Papers: Alice Stone Blackwell Papers, 1848-1957; Miscellany.; Class notes; By Blackwell; … 42 All changes between things are due to changes in things According to Hamilton the law of causation depends upon our inability to conceive creation means therefore the selfequality of being This…- Contributor: Blackwell Family
- Date: 1848
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Image 26 of Blackwell Family Papers: Alice Stone Blackwell Papers, 1848-1957; Miscellany.; Class notes; By Blackwell; … 44 a thoughtproblem not datum of senseexperience This brings us to the second question How is interaction possible At first this would seem as insoluble as the other how is action possible…- Contributor: Blackwell Family
- Date: 1848
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Image 27 of Blackwell Family Papers: Alice Stone Blackwell Papers, 1848-1957; Miscellany.; Class notes; By Blackwell; … 46 move harmoniously this is Leibnitz The notion of interaction being thus obscure difficult it has occurred to many to eliminate it The resulting attempts are three occasionalism positivism the preestablished harmony…- Contributor: Blackwell Family
- Date: 1848
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Image 28 of Blackwell Family Papers: Alice Stone Blackwell Papers, 1848-1957; Miscellany.; Class notes; By Blackwell; … 48 pre established harmony This is based on the exteremest assertion of individuality Whereas the occasionalists found a difficulty only in conceiving the interaction of soul body Leibnitz denied that any two…- Contributor: Blackwell Family
- Date: 1848
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Image 29 of Blackwell Family Papers: Alice Stone Blackwell Papers, 1848-1957; Miscellany.; Class notes; By Blackwell; … 50 All attempts to escape interaction fail the question recurs how is interaction possible The answers is that it is impossible so long as things are viewed as independent By definition the…- Contributor: Blackwell Family
- Date: 1848
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Image 30 of Blackwell Family Papers: Alice Stone Blackwell Papers, 1848-1957; Miscellany.; Class notes; By Blackwell; … 52 the same being is present in all as their ground reality The decision between these views can be reached only as we find in the realm of the finite some being…- Contributor: Blackwell Family
- Date: 1848
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Image 31 of Blackwell Family Papers: Alice Stone Blackwell Papers, 1848-1957; Miscellany.; Class notes; By Blackwell; … 54 quantitatively we can solve the problem only as we exchange mode for act The whole agent acts in every act The finite then if not substantially real must be viewed as…- Contributor: Blackwell Family
- Date: 1848
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Image 32 of Blackwell Family Papers: Alice Stone Blackwell Papers, 1848-1957; Miscellany.; Class notes; By Blackwell; … 56 necessity must do Of course no one can comprehend the possibility of a free person but no more can one comprehend an eternal necessity It is enough to show that thought…- Contributor: Blackwell Family
- Date: 1848
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Image 33 of Blackwell Family Papers: Alice Stone Blackwell Papers, 1848-1957; Miscellany.; Class notes; By Blackwell; … 58 absurd to ask what would be true apart from both We conclude then that our monism extends not only to things but to principles also It has been very common in…- Contributor: Blackwell Family
- Date: 1848
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Image 34 of Blackwell Family Papers: Alice Stone Blackwell Papers, 1848-1957; Miscellany.; Class notes; By Blackwell; … 60 of all that we understand by being Second we may view it as a peculiar order of relations among things but existing as such apart from thought Third we may view…- Contributor: Blackwell Family
- Date: 1848
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Image 35 of Blackwell Family Papers: Alice Stone Blackwell Papers, 1848-1957; Miscellany.; Class notes; By Blackwell; … 62 to them their positions relative to itself The same is true for all other parts the conclusion is that extended body is a complex of interacting forces hence never a unit…- Contributor: Blackwell Family
- Date: 1848
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Image 36 of Blackwell Family Papers: Alice Stone Blackwell Papers, 1848-1957; Miscellany.; Class notes; By Blackwell; … 64 who in effect made it an attribute of God On all these accounts then we deny the reality of space It is incompatible with the unity of being of first principles…- Contributor: Blackwell Family
- Date: 1848
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Image 37 of Blackwell Family Papers: Alice Stone Blackwell Papers, 1848-1957; Miscellany.; Class notes; By Blackwell; … 66 ble interactions All that is more than these is contributed by the mind They are the matter of knowledge The mind gives them form When they are conceived as a manifold…- Contributor: Blackwell Family
- Date: 1848
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Image 38 of Blackwell Family Papers: Alice Stone Blackwell Papers, 1848-1957; Miscellany.; Class notes; By Blackwell; … 68 forms of senseintuition of unpicturable realities beyond The intuition has its objective ground but that ground though unlike its mental translation yet stands in definite relations to it so that a…- Contributor: Blackwell Family
- Date: 1848
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Image 39 of Blackwell Family Papers: Alice Stone Blackwell Papers, 1848-1957; Miscellany.; Class notes; By Blackwell; … 70 to our thought We intuite our objects under the form of space But the objects themselves are not spatially related in thought We have n conceptions give them spacerelations but the…- Contributor: Blackwell Family
- Date: 1848
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Image 40 of Blackwell Family Papers: Alice Stone Blackwell Papers, 1848-1957; Miscellany.; Class notes; By Blackwell; … 72 Yet after all it is said this view is totally foreign to the appearance As if we denied it It is a complete misconception to suppose that we are trying to…- Contributor: Blackwell Family
- Date: 1848