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Example sentences for "external world"

  • The subjective is that which is only insufficiently thought, as in the case of relativity and error; the objective is that which is completely thought.

  • There is but one way to make anything at all out of nature, and that is to conceive it as an order of necessary events in space and time.

  • The very least experience of objects involves the employment of principles which are furnished by the mind.

  • The transformation of this critical and agnostic doctrine into absolute idealism is inevitable.

  • Sensations instinctively lead us to believe in the existence of an external world; and if this belief be submitted to the examination of reason, it confirms the same truth, resting upon the general ideas of cause and effect.

  • Relation of Sensations to an External World 267 V.

  • Or suppose some one to say, that all we see is nothing, that there is no external world, that we have no body, or that all told us of the existence of a city called London is untrue.

  • We must be sure that our sensations correspond to an external world, real and true, not phenomenal.

  • I shall begin by asking whether it is not possible to doubt that there is an external world at all.

  • Sidenote: Two kinds of experience, the experience of our own mind and the experience of an external world.

  • Now experience in the widest sense of the word may be conveniently distinguished into two sorts, the experience of our own mind and the experience of an external world.

  • In view of this acknowledged fact, we ask--Does the term "permanent possibility of sensations" exhaust all that is contained in this conception of an external world?

  • Bacon held fast to Induction, believing firmly in the existence of an external world, and making collected experiences the basis of all knowledge.

  • The former carry impressions from the external world to the brain; the latter convey the behests of the brain to the muscles.

  • The question of an external world,' says J.

  • With him, as with the uneducated man, there is no doubt or question as to the existence of an external world.

  • It cannot take its attention from the external world, in order to centre it upon human perception, without strengthening the psychical.

  • The type of life does not seek to justify itself, to show its truth, through harmony with an external world; it is justified by its own advance, its increase in strength, and its upward growth.

  • We say that each type has projected himself, that is, has thrust himself out into the external world, and is standing back, looking at his own nature and calling that the universe.

  • One of the curiosities of orthodox empiricism is that its outstanding speculative problem is the existence of an "external world.

  • They will therefore appear as à priori, as essential to the existence of any Geometry and to experience of an external world as such.

  • The Divine and finite spirits, signified by the phenomena that are presented to our senses in cosmical order, form Berkeley's external world.

  • In like manner the Second Part of the Clavis consists of reasonings in proof of the impossibility of an external world independent of Spirit.

  • Such converse as the brain normally holds with the external world, is held through the appointed channels of the senses, whereby appropriate causation is supplied to keep the otherwise isolated system at work.

  • For Idealism in this form may hold that apart from the Ego there is no external world; that outside of z there is no x; that the only esse is the percipi.


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    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    before being; external auditory; external authority; external characters; external conditions; external evidence; external force; external form; external influences; external nature; external objects; external relations; external soul; external things; external world; flee away; grammar school; marriage custom; pastoral people; small garrison; sometimes referred; suppose they; unclean thing; vertebrate animals; well grown; written down