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Chapter
The Problem and The Program
This is an essay in metaphysics — an attempt to render an account of the nature of reality and an attempt of a special kind. It is not, like an essay in scientific cosmology, an attempt to come at a general ac...
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Chapter
Thought and the Self
The conclusion of Chapter II — that, if we are to talk sense at all, we must suppose that reality contains “selves” or at least one “self” and that this “self” or these “selves” must be continuants and be free...
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Chapter
The Content of Experience
I suppose we must ask the question: “What or what kinds of things do we experience ?” in the hope that the answer will throw some light on the question: “What kinds of experience are trustworthy?” The original...
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Chapter
Scepticism and the Self
A metaphysician needs a starting point, a point of orientation. He also needs a standard defined in terms of a paradigm case from which he cannot and will not be pushed. In his search for these, he has been ha...
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Chapter
Thought and Reality
The argument in Chapter III does, I think, re-enforce the conclusions of Chapter II but it must be admitted that it does seem to add to the air of mystery and, since this is not a detective story, it is incumb...
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Chapter
Conclusion
The conclusions of the past seven chapters must stand or fall upon their own merits in their proper context. Pulled out of context and stated baldly here, they would, no doubt, have the base ring of jargon and...
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Chapter
Value and Reality
My aim, in this chapter, is to set forth an argument which, if it is valid, will demonstrate, on independent grounds, the truth of the conclusions suggested in the earlier chapters. One premise of this argumen...
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Chapter
The Structure of Experience
I propose here to discuss, in some detail, two problems relating to the concept of space. Both appear to produce dilemmas. One arises from a set of epistemological problems which seem to force the belief that ...