Philosophy of Knowledge; An Inquiry Into the Nature, Limits, and Validity of Human Cognitive Faculty - Brossura
Sinossi
This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1906. Excerpt: ... CHAPTER XV TRUTH AND EBBOE TT may seem to some readers that the trustworthiness of--our cognitive judgments, the value for the transcendent of our experience, and the validity in general of human knowledge, have been over-emphasized. The preliminary survey of the nature of knowledge showed that its problem is proposed to philosophy in the form of a question: How can cognition, which is, psychologically considered, a subjective affair, a mere process in consciousness, be also transsubjective or ontologically referent, so as to put the mind in possession of truth respecting Reality? From a sceptical beginning, and following carefully the critical method, positive and comprehensive conclusions have been reached. In all cognition, the reality of the Self--that it is, and what it is--is immediately and indubitably given; and the reality of Things is also given,--that they are, immediately and indubitably, and what they are, if we accept in good faith the postulate of their being and behaving after the analogy of the self-known Self. To doubt thus much is theoretically to deny the possibility of knowledge. When subjected to critical analysis the very denial is found to be inherently contradictory and absurd. All knowledge is, indeed, on the one hand, limited by barriers of accepted and experienced fact, and, on the other hand, by the necessity of responding with an agnostic answer to many questionings after reasons and causes. He, however, who, because he must often say, "I do not know," refuses to accept and live by the positive truths implicated in the affirmation, "I do know," will never attain to intellectual peace. He may even commit the unpardonable sin against the spirit of truth. Moreover, the nature and growth of human knowledge is such that truth, as ...
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