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Tuesday, December 8, 2009

"Experience and Substance" by De Witt Henry Parker,1941


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Experience,as something concrete and given,is existentially ultimate ;
in the experience of the self we have an illuminating sample of reality.
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What we regard as physical objects quite different from our sensations are actually constructions integrating sensory data and meaning.
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The generic concepts of being derive their sense from the given characteristics of experience.
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Hume's analysis of causation is inadequate for it fails to take into account the critical role of volition in influencing action.
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Substances cannot be reduced to their characteristics ;
they are relatively independent,have causal efficacy,and endure through change.
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Space is a manifold of actual and possible relations ;
time is a term for events and their coming into being and ceasing to be ;
the self is best understood as present in the focal self,
and as having come out of the matrix self.
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