Happily, man possesses certainty independently of philosophical systems, not limited to phenomena of the soul, but extending as far as is needed in order to direct his conduct, both with regard to himself and to external objects.
The principal thing in uttering these formulae is that he says what appears to him, and communicates his own feelings in an unprejudiced way, without asserting anything in regard to external objects.
Since therefore ideas differ according to the difference in animals, and it is impossible to judge them, it is necessary to suspend the judgment in regard to external objects.
If, however, the senses do not comprehend the external world, the intellect cannot comprehend it either, so that for this reason also it will appear that the suspension of judgment follows in regard to external objects.
The apparitions of our frighted Phancies are real sensibles: But if we translate them without the compass of our Brains, and apprehend them as external objects; it's the unwary rashness of our Understanding deludes us.
We have a knowledge of external objects, and we have a knowledge that transcends this knowledge of external objects.
As thus attaining a knowledge of external objects, affording material for the operations of the understanding, and furnishing the occasion for the activity of the intuitive power, perception may be said to lie at the basis of all knowledge.
Besides the perception of external objects, and the inspection of our internal mental states, there are other forms of quasi-presentative cognition which need to be touched on here, inasmuch as they are sometimes erroneous and illusory.
It may, perhaps, not be unnecessary to add that, in employing this term, I am making no assumption about the independent existence of external objects.
But in some of the sciences which are conversant with external objects, it is scarcely possible to surpass the perfection to which this quality of a philosophical language has been carried.
Combe's Constitution of Man, Considered in Relation to external Objects.
He denies that mind is an entity, a being, perceiving and recognizing ideas suggested by the impressions produced upon the nervous organization by external objects.
To this organ proceed the impressions produced upon one set of nerves by external objects, or by light or heat.
Neither should they confine themselves to externalities after having admitted that he turns his whole attention on things that he bears within himself; in short, not to believe that the goal of his will inheres in external objects.
But does discursive reason not know that it is discursive reason, and that its domain is the comprehension of external objects?
As to the latter point, it would be wrong to think that the nature of the soul was determined by the passions aroused in her by external objects, and that she did not possess her own individual nature.
Reid lays it down as a fact, that perceptions follow sensations, that sensations follow certain impressions made on our organs of sense by external objects, which stand first in the series.
But he seems to have been awake to external objects to the last.
And lastly, the sense of touch is liable to be deceived by preconceived ideas; which we believe to be excited by external objects, even when we are awake.
In this malady the patients have only the general appearance of being asleep in respect to their inattention to the stimulus of external objects, but, like the epilepsies above described, it consists in voluntary exertions to relieve pain.
Besides, allowing there are colours on external objects, yet, how is it possible for us to perceive them?
It were easy to dilate on this subject, and shew how the arguments urged by sceptics in all ages depend on the supposition of external objects.
Whence it clearly follows that the pictures painted on the bottom of the eye are not the pictures of external objects.
It is then a certain truth, that the internal sensation is altogether different from its cause; as also, if external objects exist, they are in themselves very different from what we conceive them.
For, if those become weak and productive of evil there is no man who can keep himself free from temptation of external objects by which he is always surrounded.
One distinction between emotional and instinctive behavior is that the emotion consists of internal responses, while the instinct is directed outwards or at least involves action on external objects.
Third, his play comes to consist more and more of responses to external objects, instead of to internal stimuli as at first.
The movements, taken singly, are not uncoordinated by any means, but they accomplish no definite result, produce no definite change in external objects, and so seem random and aimless to adult eyes.
The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "external objects" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this group of words.
