Philosophy of RhetoricScholars' Facsimiles & Reprints, 1998 - 293 pages |
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Page 65
... mind that it may be mind , must be conscious of its own phenomena . Complete sleep or unconsciousness would involve the perfect sus- pension of intellectual life . Consciousness testifies di- rectly to mental phenomena -to their ...
... mind that it may be mind , must be conscious of its own phenomena . Complete sleep or unconsciousness would involve the perfect sus- pension of intellectual life . Consciousness testifies di- rectly to mental phenomena -to their ...
Page 88
... mind , and to render it suspicious . Arguments , of course , come early in the oration . They occupy the mind while it is yet quiet , and clear the way for rational feeling . No sooner is the subject before the mind , than it wishes to ...
... mind , and to render it suspicious . Arguments , of course , come early in the oration . They occupy the mind while it is yet quiet , and clear the way for rational feeling . No sooner is the subject before the mind , than it wishes to ...
Page 114
... mind . Our senses are a first , con- stant , and undoubted source of knowledge . Value and pleasure early and chiefly attach themselves to sensible objects around these the associations of life cluster . Hence no form of knowledge is so ...
... mind . Our senses are a first , con- stant , and undoubted source of knowledge . Value and pleasure early and chiefly attach themselves to sensible objects around these the associations of life cluster . Hence no form of knowledge is so ...
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