This does not mean that fact is confused with idea, or observed datum with voluntary hypothesis, theory with doing, any more than a traveler confuses land and water when he journeys from one to the other.
Putting the matter in a slightly different way, logical (as distinct from naive) realism confusesmeans of knowledge with objects of knowledge.
It is probably this act of calling the end to mind which the realistconfuses with knowledge, and therefore terms apprehension.
The decrees were nearly the same as those made at the Councils of Lateran and Verona, except that laymen were then first prohibited from reading the Scriptures in the vulgar tongue.
But this is not his spirit, only the dead ultimate result of an imperfect logic that confuses an abstract with a concrete unity.
Philo impugns both these theories,[245] the one because it denies the creative power of God, the other because it confuses the Creator with His creation.
The former recognized that the principle of causality is neither empirical nor analytic, and therefore concluded that it is an invention of reason, which confusessubjective with objective necessity.
He who makes salvation dependent on preaching and the Sacrament, confuses the invisible and the visible Church, Ecclesia interna and externa.
In the second place the assumption is useless; it explains nothing, but confuses the problems of natural science to the point of insolubility.
Manfredi here follows Mondino, who confuses Galen’s fourth pair with Galen’s sixth pair of nerves.
The hawk stoops at the head of its quarry and confuses it, whilst the dogs, who would otherwise have no chance, run up and seize it.
Kellaart mentions it in Ceylon as the "common musk shrew or rat of Europeans;" but he confuses it with the last species.
This beautiful little cat is almost a miniature of the clouded panther, and Blyth confuses the Malayan name of the latter, and applies it to this species, which probably arose from his quoting as a synonym, F.
It is this vast profusion of scenery, this daily and hourly unrolling of the panorama, that overwhelms and confuses the observer.
Haureau (who confuses him with Bernard of Chartres), Hist.
This usage is common in the AI and Microsoft Windows worlds, and confuses Unix hackers.
A Unix symbolic link, particularly when it confuses you, points to nothing at all, or results in your ending up in some completely unexpected part of the filesystem.
At close quarters he confuses me with too many terrific unanswerable questions.
Kay confuses the working-class in general with the factory workers, otherwise an excellent pamphlet.
If he confuses what he dreams himself to be with what he actually is, he has already entered upon the pathway of madness.
Rousseau indeed assumes that his art of mixing himself up with the landscape is identical with leisure; like innumerable disciples he confusesrevery with meditation--a confusion so grave that I shall need to revert to it later.
He is occasionally represented as seated on a cubic stone, which, however, confuses some of the issues.
The miner M confuses the two sounds, and the offensive gallery passes under him.
An enemy listener easilyconfuses one with the other, and the offensive gallery passes under him.
Their heads are full of a jumble of hypocrisy, mysticism, prejudice, pecuniary interests, veneration for old traditional customs called good manners, a jumble which absolutely confusesall ideas of a healthy sexual morality.
I will cite two examples which show how effectively the public organization of a vicious social anomalyconfuses ideas in persons of limited intelligence.
For this latter enthusiasm confuses the value of things, ignores their shades of difference, and is an obstacle to all sensible criticism and all calm judgment.
Hagnone which Halm, as well as Baiter takes; Zeller 533 seems to adopt this and at once confuses the supposed philosopher with one Agnon just mentioned in Quint.
Here he, no doubt, in a sincere and exalted moment, confuses God with a name.
The power in Emerson's prophecy confuses it with--or at least makes it seem to approach--revelation.
Hackers find it odd that this usage confuses {mundane}s.
Sometimes it is cruel and sometimes it is horribly unclean, but it always debases the worshiper's mind, confuses his conscience, and hampers his freedom and energy by the burdensome ceremonies it imposes upon them.
No man can accept a doctrine that darkens his moral sense, or that confuses the distinction between right and wrong.
Na, naething confuses me, unless it be a screed o' drink at an orra time.
He has shown also how it confuses the family, and has exposed the old delusion that men may be impure and keep their womankind chaste.
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