Thing-in-itself
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Dictionary Entry | Posted 12/03/2018 Quote from "On the Meaning of "Real" [R]" Immanuel Kant, incomparably the greatest philosopher of knowledge that ever was, the great scrutinator of Reality, has in one large part of his chef d’oeuvre a good deal to say about the... |
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Dictionary Entry | Posted 24/08/2017 Quote from "Pragmatism, Prag [R]" An external object is anything that is not affected by any cognitions, whether about it or not, of the man to whom it is external. Exaggerate this, in the usual philosopher fashion, and you have... |
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Dictionary Entry | Posted 09/03/2016 Quote from "Materials for Monist Article: The Consequences of Pragmaticism. Vols. I and II [R]" A real is anything that is not affected by men’s cognitions about it. An external object is anything that is not affected by any of man’s cognitions (whether about it or about anything... |
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Dictionary Entry | Posted 25/10/2015 Quote from "Some Consequences of Four Incapacities" At any moment we are in possession of certain information, that is, of cognitions which have been logically derived by induction and hypothesis from previous cognitions which are less general,... |