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InauguralLecture
the University
before
of Oxford
20
S^vember
19 19
BY
HAROLD
H.
JOACHIM
Wykehani Professorof Logic
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XIX
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death
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he
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and
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his power
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knew
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of the seriousness
outstanding characteristic \ writes
pupils,^was
the
success,
philosophy,of fosteringin
spiritof
His
feel his
himself,with
remarkable
with
and
others
to
hearted
;
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but
primarilyas
professor,devoted
difficult tasks
most
of Oxford
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us
who, throughout his long
energy
of
of him
think
to
teacher
the
fessor
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recognized as
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we
and
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spiritual
example,
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was
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only
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irreparableloss.
an
and
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Wilson,
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It is natural
tutor
Cook
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can
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came
great forces in the
though
memory
of mine
influence,the
of his
Logic,John
of the
one
all who
subject. By
predecessor,I
my
words
no
begin this Inaugural
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custom,
by commemorating
well
too
with
accordance
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will agree.
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one
of
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at
other
of the
occasion,he
Mr.
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to
touch.
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when
nature"
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of the
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ever
which,
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aid.
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him.
consulted
on
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posal
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of penetrating
his power
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detailed
a
views
estimate
is
there
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we
one
reflect upon
we
remember
knowledge
1849-1915 ',in
B.Joseph ^
pointon
which
Wilson's
Cook
his
capacityand
of Greek
of his
I could add
and indeed
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his mathematical
his unrivalled
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always
was
articles by Mr. H. W.
H. A. Prichard^
intellectual powers,
(
who
to my
came
attempt
the admirable
many-sided
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trouble,but placed freelyat
philosophical
writingsand
and
knowledge
kindness
the generous
nor
his
experience,I
own
him
suggestivecriticism.
and
nothingto
of his younger
subject
fellow-worker
my
means
any
Universities,
owe
profound scholarshipand
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by
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jects,
philosophicalsub-
on
gratitude. For
any
remember
one
teacher
a
writers
master
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quote
than
and
and
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regular pupils. Many
here
service
as
and
that words
crime, and
a
great and
to
snare
his
to
that
high importance,that slovenly
his influence
both
more
of
thinkingwas
colleagues,teachers
the
EXPERIENCE
infection in his conviction
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matter
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was
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vol. vii of the
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g., he
had
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the
to
would
absorb
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Philosophy.
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all
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knowledge
pass
may
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at first
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own
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comes
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an
heart
than
more
one
forces
to
and
have
those
to
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immediate
on
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on
clear truths
admit, or
deny'.^
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of
might
familiar friend whom
distrust.
Locke, Essay concerning Human
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service
the
^
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to
generations
say
in the end
another,
old
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tradition
to
should
of
side
enough
energy.
splendid
impudence
or
is another
of many
rests
all mediation
yet, though
work, interpretedas
presume
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of Plato^s
philosophical
And
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experience,that
a
shall
more
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natural,there
established
ments
develop-
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to
reverence
spent himself
; he
write.
of his knowledge,
recent
more
strength and
of
have
the
Professor's
whole
philosophical
of the fullness
given
is
a
the love and
pupils;
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are
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man's
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greatest value.
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of
feelingof regret
Wilson
Cook
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of the very
question.
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pubhshed,
he
works
such
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TimaeuSj
world
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critical estimate
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little. There
which
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discuss.
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difference
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knowledge
and
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with
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guilt.
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reverence;
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contemplation;
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love
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only,
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apt
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the
distance
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feelingof
the
what
Mediation
and
from
immediate
might inspire. We
possessed by,
subject,and
experience.
paces
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to
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to
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though
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mediate
with
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of
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astronomy.
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contrast
of
the
of
derive from
is
do
to
to
reviving.
mark
to
as
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anxious
old,and perhaps for that
distinction between
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features
worth
forgottenand
be
hope
is there
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beyond
to
and
ready
the reconsideration
Nor
say.
I shall have
am
can
some
provoke
theories.
to
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far
us
carry
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and
gladly investigate,
that I
utmost
interest
I have
much
granted
knowledge.
would
^
immediate
precisesense
of
adequate discussion
like
to
what
in
the foundation
experience is
take
EXPERIENCE
or
in,
call
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MEDIATION
AND
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a
level
below,
in
falsity,
speak
of
of
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distrust,a
of such
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which
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be converted
may
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or
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when
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beauty
immediate
as
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feeling into
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view
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feeling.
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on
it will
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more
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to
proof
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of A's
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to
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know
that A
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grounded
guilthas
;
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premiss, or
distrust
our
immediate, the relation,
be, is clearlynot
the Immediate
reasoned
itself
approve
experience or
distrust
the
divine,our
true
reasoned
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divine
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conclusion
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philosophicaltheory.
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experience which
of
of the
mediate
thief because
tempted
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when
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else it may
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to
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into
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trasted
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or
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are
naturallyapplies.
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into
and
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into
grounds, though,
sense
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of
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is
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instinct,a
to
truth
and
terms,
epithetsis proleptic. The
sound
rational
which
inevitablyand
true
a
use
of those
sense
physician.
meta-
belong
than, that of
other
experiencesto
false
and
true
strict
any
with
least
at
or
the
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immediate
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ences
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reflective
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here
experiences
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mediate
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the
of, e.g.,
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continue
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thief
the
divine,
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we
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if
even
short, our
sequent,
logicalcon-
of the
knowledge
is 'built' (ifwe
experience
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upon^ but
not
if indeed
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is fashioned
which
of mediation.
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the
still 'see'
earth,
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even
feel
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the
that the temperature
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mediate
The
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ii. 35
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from
paces
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established
and
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of \
inadequate
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this
for
tested, \
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transformed
and
which
critic,the
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so
of
shipper
wor-
substance
foundation
hot, though
is
the
are
employ
of
or
from
latter"
notwithstanding
And,
truth
sifted and
into
out
and
be
must
it is the
of
lover
the
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to
But
knowledge.
of
after
conclusions
part, perhaps, converted
reasoned
still
of
premisses
not
are
criticism,materials
analysisand
in
seeker
theologian.
the
philosopher,or
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that
the
more
experiences
the
logicallyfollow
there
the
no
as
same
culprit.
logicalground,
the whole-hearted
of
of
a
the
distrust
the
was
So, again,the immediate
a
transformed.
been
not
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guilt.
of his
and
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from, is justified
by, the mediation
issues
may
of the
distrust is
of
originalfeehng
which
grounding
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the
in the process
The
EXPERIENCE
that
it is
MEDIATION
AND
who
we
have
become
the
faith in
In
it
immediate
vision
the
the
relation
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experience
from
sense,
again, in
a
what
of
a
the
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our
"
terms
is
But
the
the
nor
which
neither
it is"
of the
are
initial
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in thus
stumbled
we
and
out
tion
doubt, the media-
no
the initial
what
is thus
and
the
itself
distinguishthe
two
understanding
logical consequents
tion
media-
logical
consequents,
Often,
the process
of
thesis
syn-
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grounded
neither
reasoning
which
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its result,if for
nor
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or
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have
bringing
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transforming
are
process
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thinking;
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understanding
moment
think, we
deepening, development,
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sets
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logicalrelations.
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and
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to
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of it.
and
;
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have
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within
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understand
to
account
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which
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and
mediate
aim
our
begin
we
imperfectly
immediately experienced
reasoned
moment
the truth.
thus
logicaldependence.
is
without
emotional
absorption in
experienced perplexes
but
the
beauty,
between
it is
sense,
give
to
a
possible to
metaphysician
a
distinction
the
of
sense
least
at
seems
God, the whole-hearted
sketched,
a
And
a
critic,
theologian,or
a
losing
fever.
a
ii
assumed
rejecting the conception
mediate
upon
that
and
another
within
of
immediate
sense
the
a
nexion
logicalcon-
experience,
of
process
the
we
distinction.
of
mediation
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IMMEDIATE
12
itself there
logicalantecedents
are
And
said, is
Certain
end
the
and
scope
explanation
or
the
proof. Thus,
certain
principles,
conditiones
other
controlled
authority
by
demonstrating
But
connexions
are
that
sure
unless
within
demonstrate
explain or
connexion.
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determinate
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in
of all
from
our
And
to
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explain
but
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derivation
resolve
a
basal
must
knowledge.
indemonstrable,
principlesthemselves
with
these
must
but
proceed
self-evident.
into
complex
constituents
self-explanatory,
or
short, primary,
in
the
fact
of them
;
and
their
the second
also know
knowledge
is to derive
of
explaining or
are
self-luminous,truths
accordance
reasoning
any
truths,the foundations
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all
special sphere), we
self-evident
demonstrate
which
the
immediate.
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are
sphere depend.
principles and
if these
known,
we
we
clearly be
To
that
are
there
inquiry
of facts,on
within
all ; and
at
connexions
(the basal
cannot
be
cannot
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reasoning.
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at least,our
know
we
certain
are
of
sphere
connexions
admit
of all sound
non
connexions
facts,or
facts and
Unless
each
of all the rest.
require,nor
of
tion.
distinc-
the
of mediation
process
there
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quibus
again, within
certain basal
is
sine
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know-
our
experience *,this,it
And, being primary, they neither
And
all
'
significanceof
within
terms,
that
immediate
on
quents.
logical conse-
primary, the logicalfoundations
are
itself,
the
and
it is maintained
when
in the
rests
will be
EXPERIENCE
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to
plicable,
inex-
re-state
it
AND
in terms
they
of
MEDIATION
elements
all
only
the
Regulae
of science,
investigationswith
hot
here
but
true
connexion
(D) with
When
the
whose
ends
this
into
is
yet unfilled
as
discover
the
required
to
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thus
and
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A-D,
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subject is
an
between
A
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course
terms
term
e.
a
links
the
substitute, for
to
is
a
of the
proprium
science.
(a
reference
to
Ka"
terms
The
has
science.
and
which
unfilled
A
unbroken
is
connexion
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;
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object is
connecting
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terms
the
be
interval
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arofiov
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Anal.
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The
which
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suc-
the
is the
nexus
universal.
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g. Posf.
is
middle
or
dtaa-TTjfxa,
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two
of
to
(A-D)
of
knowledge.
infima species(an
subject-matter
^
for his
fill this gap"
property
has
subject and
the
between
middle
the
by
i.e.
'close-packed' interv^al,*
a
The
'
judgement,
a
truth
starts, there
marked
are
various
connexion
judgement
demonstrated
a
are
we
appropriate subject (A).^
demonstrator
interval
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unmediated
the
converted
is
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provisionally asserted
thus
established"
method
formulate
to
of
preliminary
unproved, asserting the
yet
as
property
and
and
nature
of these
also
Aristotle,the
to
certain
of
concerned, is enabled
irpoPXriiiaTa.Each
doctrine
Analytics^but
result
whose
tual
intellec-
is the
According
the
as
truths
Posterior
of Descartes.
immediate
the
on
of self-evident
of Aristotle's
not
man
is based
reasoning
apprehension
be
for what
recognized immediately
are.
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13
84
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31-85
The
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i.
theory.
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term
nvKvovaBai
is ot
IMMEDIATE
14
cession
The
minimal
of
connexion
inevitable
with
the
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stretches
C-D)
truths, the
that A
to
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and
of
all
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And,
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the
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self-consciousness
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from
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necessary
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dBiaipcradiaaTTjfiaTOf
g.
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iii.
4 *.
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existence
my
progress
intellect
immediate,
self-evident
involves
inferential
of
but
necessary,
elements
self-evident,my
to
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infallible in its inferential movement.^
simple proposition'.
and
correspond
intuitively
apprehended
nature
own
apprehend
implicationof
or
its
express
truths
exercise
in the
proof
the
tions.
logicalfounda-
simple
The
knowledge.
our
intuition ',and
Thus,
the
Descartes, are
maintains, is infallible
\
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or
B-C,
yet necessary
its
yet necessary
simple
A-B,
which
as
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to
These
composed.
presupposes
analyse
to
tary
indivisible,elemen-
premisses,
simple propositions
according
data
it is
is thus
A
D
of
demonstrate
(the judgements
immediate
self-evident
the
with
into the
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15
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is infallible because
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and
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Aristotle's
to
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69-72.
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to
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bear
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:
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the
of
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implication of
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existence
welding together
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demonstrated
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light.
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to
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of
fact
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conditions, therefore, to which
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19
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IMMEDIATE
20
him
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EXPERIENCE
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science.
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but
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better
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raise
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meet
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which
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plication
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a
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And
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we
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anythingis
is
21
reciprocal,
hypothetical
judgement
pure,
as
MEDIATION
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IMMEDIACY
22
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AND
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world
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we
false,
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spoke
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