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Mr. Purse Says

morton — Wed, 26 Mar 2008 00:12:13 +0000

“One singular deception …, is to mistake the sensation produced by our own unclearness of thought for a character of the object we are thinking. Instead of perceiving that the obscurity is purely subjective, we fancy that we contemplate a quality of the object which is essentially mysterious; and if our conception be afterward presented to us in a clear form we do not recognize it as the same, owing to the absence of the feeling of unintelligibility.” (How to Make Our Ideas Clear)

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morton — Fri, 21 Mar 2008 16:49:15 +0000

“There are real things, whose characters are entirely independent of our opinions about them; those realities affect our senses according to regular laws, and, though our sensations are as different as our relations to the objects, yet, by taking advantage of the laws of perception, we can ascertain by reasoning how things really are, and any man, if he have sufficient experience and reason enough about it, will be led to the one true conclusion. The new conception involved is that of reality.” (The Fixation of Belief)

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morton — Fri, 21 Mar 2008 16:42:02 +0000

“Our external permanency, would not be external, in our sense, if it was restricted in its influence to one individual. It must be something which affects, or might affect, every man.” (The Fixation of Belief)

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morton — Fri, 21 Mar 2008 16:40:13 +0000

“To satisfy our doubts, therefore, it is necessary that a method should be found by which our beliefs may be caused by nothing human, but by some external permanency â€“ by something upon which our thinking has no effect.” (The Fixation of Belief)

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morton — Fri, 21 Mar 2008 16:36:45 +0000

“There must be a real and living doubt, and without all this, discussion is idle.” (The Fixation of Belief)

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morton — Fri, 21 Mar 2008 16:34:46 +0000

“… it is easy to believe that those rules of reasoning which are deduced from the very idea of the process are the ones which are the most essential …” (The Fixation of Belief)

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morton — Fri, 21 Mar 2008 16:29:25 +0000

“his way was to carry his mind into his laboratory, and to make of his alembics and cucurbits instruments of thought, giving a new conception of reasoning as something which was to be done with one’s eyes open, by manipulating real things instead of words and fancies.” (The Fixation of Belief)