„Even the primary qualities are undergoing the same fate. Hardness and softness are effects on us of atomic interactions, and the atoms themselves are neither hard nor soft, nor solid nor liquid. Size and shape are deemed subjective by Kantians; time itself is subjective according to many philosophers; and even the activity and causal efficacy which lingered in physics long after secondary qualities were banished are now treated as illusory projections outwards of phenomena of our own consciousness.“ (p. 124) #James #PrimaryQualities
Bachelard: Universum
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„Jedenfalls ist das Universum kein Objekt. Wir können uns nicht auf ein Werden des Universums beziehen. Wir können nur vom Werden einer bestimmten Kategorie von Phänomenen im Universum sprechen. Unsere gesamte Erfahrung und unser gesamtes Wissen beziehen sich auf eine Sektion einer Phänomenologie, deren Totalität wir nicht erfassen können.“ (p. 168) #Bachelard #Universum #Objekt #Werden #Phänomenologie
Berkeley: Spirit
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„From what has been said, ‚tis evident, there is not any other Substance than Spirit or that which perceives.“ (§ 7) #Berkeley #Spirit
Berkeley: Abstract Ideas
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„Beside the external Existence of the Objects of Perception, another great Source of Errors and Difficulties, with regard to Ideal Knowlege, is the Doctrine of Abstract Ideas„. (§ 97) #Berkeley #AbstractIdeas
James: Radical Empiricism
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„I give the name of ‚radical empiricism‘ to my Weltanschauung. Empiricism is known as the opposite of rationalism. Rationalism tends to emphasize universals and to make wholes prior to parts in the order of logic as well as in that of being. Empiricism, on the contrary, lays the explanatory stress upon the part, the element, the individual, and treats the whole as a collection and the universal as an abstraction.“ (p. 37) #James #RadicalEmpiricism #Weltanschauung