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Thursday, November 26, 2009

"Appearance and Reality" by Francis Herbert Bradley,1893


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The distinction between
primary (sensed) qualities of physical objects and
secondary (structural) qualities
is based on appearance ;
in reality there is no such distinction.
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Upon analysis it turns out that space,time,objects,and selves are appearances,not realities ; the concepts do not stand up because alleged differences vanish when it is discovered that definitions are circular,empty,or inconsistent.
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The logical character of reality is that it does not contradict itself ;
the metaphysical character of reality is that it is one ;
and the epistemological character of reality is that it is experience.
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Reality,or the Absolute,
must be because appearances are the appearances of reality.
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In judgment,an idea is predicated of a real subject ;
a judgment is true insofar as it predicates harmonious content,
removing inconsistency -but since predicates are ideal,
every truth is but a partial truth,
every error but a partial error.
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