A Defence of Philosophic Doubt: Being An Essay On the Foundations of Belief
A Defence of Philosophic Doubt: Being An Essay On the Foundations of Belief
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It is using the term in the first of these senses, not in the second, that the sceptic and idealist doubt and deny respectively the existence of an external world ; but if we are rigidly to interpret Mr. Spencer's CHAP. XL] MR. SPENCER'S PROOF OF REALISM. 225 language, he seems to regard these two very different positions as equivalent.
A man looking at a book, he says, ' cannot con- ceive that where he sees and feels the hook there is nothing. ' Nor is it necessary, in the interests of Idealis...m, that he should conceive it. Of course where he sees and feels the book there is something ; — there is the book. The Idealist does not Heny this on the one hand, nor does he assert on the other that, when he does not see and feel the book, it is not there, in the sense of having vanished from that portion of space. No idealist seriously maintains, I should imagine, that the universe consists of infinite space, empty except for those things which happen each moment to be perceived. But if they do not maintain this, what is the use of asserting, as against them, that we cannot conceive that where we see and feel a book there is nothing ?
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To quickly assess the difficulty of the text, read a short excerpt:
It is using the term in the first of these senses, not in the second, that the sceptic and idealist doubt and deny respectively the existence of an external world ; but if we are rigidly to interpret Mr. Spencer's CHAP. XL] MR. SPENCER'S PROOF OF REALISM. 225 language, he seems to regard these two very different positions as equivalent.
A man looking at a book, he says, ' cannot con- ceive that where he sees and feels the hook there is nothing. ' Nor is it necessary, in the interests of Idealis...m, that he should conceive it. Of course where he sees and feels the book there is something ; — there is the book. The Idealist does not Heny this on the one hand, nor does he assert on the other that, when he does not see and feel the book, it is not there, in the sense of having vanished from that portion of space. No idealist seriously maintains, I should imagine, that the universe consists of infinite space, empty except for those things which happen each moment to be perceived. But if they do not maintain this, what is the use of asserting, as against them, that we cannot conceive that where we see and feel a book there is nothing ?
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