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Walter, Rev. Johnston Estep

 
9781330446133: The Principles of Knowledge, Vol. 1: With Remarks on the Nature of Reality (Classic Reprint)

Sinopsis

Discover how our minds shape what we know, and why knowledge starts from within. This edition surveys the foundations of knowledge, exploring how thoughts, perceptions, and memories form every act of understanding. It looks at big questions about mind, reality, and how we know what exists beyond us, without assuming easy answers.

In clear, approachable language, the book traces how the intellect builds knowledge from inner experiences and how language and symbols help us think more deeply. It examines theories about mind and matter, and challenges readers to consider how perception links us to the world. The discussion stays focused on the premise that knowledge begins in the mind and unfolds through careful reasoning.

• How the brain, senses, and feelings cooperate to produce knowledge
• The roles of perception, imagination, and logic in understanding reality
• The limits and possibilities of monist and dualist views of mind and world
• The function of language as a tool for memory, abstraction, and advanced thought

Ideal for readers curious about how knowledge is formed, what counts as real mind, and how philosophical arguments shape our view of reality. This edition is well suited for students and general readers seeking a rigorous yet accessible introduction to theories of mind and knowledge.

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Excerpt from The Principles of Knowledge, Vol. 1: With Remarks on the Nature of Reality

All knowledge is in and bv the modes Of the mind. The facts of the individual's consciousness form the beginning and basis of all knowledge. Things are known, therefore, only as we are capable of knowing them, or according to the grasp and nature of the faculties of our mind: and there is no ground for affirming the existence of anything which is not revealed immediately in the. Mental modes, or mediately by them, through their correspondence to or representation of it.

The science of knowledge has for its great aim to discuss the origin, extent, and certainty of human knowledge. It considers the basis and beginning of knowledge; the nature and extent of immediate knowledge; the nature and extent of mediate knowledge; everv cognitive movement, in its origin and reach, in its correctness and worth, from the basis of knowledge, by way of perception, imagination, inference, surmise, belief, and by every other mode of procedure, if there be others; in short, it seeks to explain the whole structure of knowledge, as to its origin, its progressive formation, its trustworthiness in each step and part.

The important relation between knowledge or thought and being implies a corresponding relation between the science of thought and the science of being.

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