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Rudolf Hermann Lotze

Outlines of Metaphysic

  • Jan Nohas quoted3 years ago
    even that which is actual can be thought of only in the aforesaid logical forms; but that, on the one side, we cannot be led by it to all the fundamental propositions of metaphysic, and that, on the other side, we may by following this clue hit upon conceptions which have merely a logical value, and of which the metaphysical applicability is not clear
  • Jan Nohas quoted3 years ago
    logical forms are, further, modes of experience
  • Jan Nohas quoted3 years ago
    Logical thinking is a combination of ideas according to laws of a universal truth; but these ideas do not relate to what is merely actual, but to all that is thinkable, even to all abstractions which can never of themselves have any actuality.
  • Jan Nohas quoted3 years ago
    Conceptions are only elements which can form truths by composition; of themselves alone they are nothing, until we are told what is to be done with them.
  • Jan Nohas quoted3 years ago
    correct form, in which we are able to express those suppositions concerning the nature of actuality that are necessities of our thought, is without exception that of the proposition, not that of the conception.
  • Jan Nohas quoted3 years ago
    Aristotle first directed attention to those most general conceptions which are expressed concerning everything actual (the ‘Categories’); but without conducting his search for them according to any principle, or giving any security that his enumeration of their series was complete.
  • Jan Nohas quoted3 years ago
    How can we get possession of those suppositions completely, in order to have in collective form that total content of our reason which is necessary to thought? and, then: How can we demonstrate that these suppositions have any validity, or what validity they have?
  • Jan Nohas quoted3 years ago
    universal science, which takes as the objects of its investigation those conceptions and propositions that, in ordinary life and in the particular sciences, are employed as principles of investigation.

    This science is Metaphysic.
  • Jan Nohas quoted3 years ago
    There are therefore never wanting occasions where doubts at once arise in us concerning their validity.
  • Jan Nohas quoted3 years ago
    Thus on consideration of the soul, the conception of ‘Thing’ seems to be in general inept to designate the permanent subject of its changeable phenomena.
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