Their function is to give flat experience a rational perspective, translating the general flux into stable objects and making it representable in human discourse.
Sidenote: Sentience is representable only in fancy] "Reality" is an ambiguous term.
In the same way, every other color, or force of color, is a fixed thing, not dependent on sensation, but numerically representable with as much exactitude as a degree of heat by a thermometer.
The trouble with both these solutions, Bergson says, is that they presuppose an achieved deliberation and resolution, representable in space by a geometrical figure.
Time that has passed is an objective thing, and is representable by space; time passing is a subjective process, and is not representable.
Without this provisional belief, wrong as it was, there could not have been that comparison of positions which showed that the motions are not representable by circles; and which led to the hypothesis of epicycles and eccentrics.
Myths arose to make this strange ambiguity of human nature more easily representable in the mind.
After the mechanism of the ritual had once been established, they served to make it more easily representable in the mind, but they are not conditions of its existence.
Another, and differing from the former in words only, is this: Whatever is representable in the forms of Time and Space, is Nature.
The possible knowledge of a thing, or the desire to have that thing representable by a distinct correspondent thought, does not, in the animal, suffice to render the thing an object, or the ground of a purpose.
Dirichlet and probably Riemann thought that all continuous functions were everywhererepresentable by the series; this view was refuted by Du Bois-Reymond (Abh.
But I held then, as I hold now, that "the Ultimate Power is no more representable in terms of human consciousness than human consciousness is representable in terms of a plant's functions.
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