Recent British Philosophy: a Review, With Criticisms; Including Some Comments On Mr. Mill's ...
Recent British Philosophy: a Review, With Criticisms; Including Some Comments On Mr. Mill's ...
Masson David
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This external some- " thing I call a Body. It may be asked, How came we " to ascribe our sensations to any external cause ? and is " there sufficient ground for so ascribing them ? It is " known that there are metaphysicians who have raised a " controversy on this point, maintaining the paradox that "we are not warranted in referring our sensations to a " cause such as we understand by the word Body, or to *Logic : 1st Edit. vol. i. p. 82. RECENT BRITISH PHILOSOPHY. 83 **any cause whatever; unl...ess, indeed, the First Cause. ". . . A fixed law of connexion, making the sensations /'occur l:ogether, does not, say these philosophers, "necessarily require what is called a substratum to "support them. The conception of a substratum is but "one. of many possible forms in which that connexion ." presents itself to our imagination — a mode of, as it were, "realizing the idea. If there be such a substratum, ." suppose it this instant annihilated by the fiat of Om- "nipotence, and let* the sensations continue to occur in "the same order, and how would the substratum be ■ " missed ?
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