Why the Mind Has a Body
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It only prepares the way for that proof by establish- ing the legitimacy of the general class to which things-in-themselves belong.
Before proceeding further, let us seek to add pre- cision to our conceptions of empirical and transcen- dent knowledge by discussing certain cases which appear to be intermediate. For, while our knowledge of our own minds is clearly empirical and our knowledge of other minds clearly transcendent, the former being coincident with our experience and the latter passin...g wholly beyond it, between these extremes there lie two cases of undoubted knowledge which seem to partake partly of the empirical and 222 WHY THE MIND HAS A BODY [chap.
partly of the transcendent character. These are per- ception and memory.
The case of memory, as the simpler, may be con- sidered first. It is clear that what is immediately given, and therefore alone empirically known, is not the entire stream of consciousness but only its present moment. Relatively to that moment, the past experience remembered is in the position of another mind, and the knowledge of it necessarily transcendent; and that quite irrespectively of the subtle question, whether that experience in any sense still exists.
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To quickly assess the difficulty of the text, read a short excerpt:
It only prepares the way for that proof by establish- ing the legitimacy of the general class to which things-in-themselves belong.
Before proceeding further, let us seek to add pre- cision to our conceptions of empirical and transcen- dent knowledge by discussing certain cases which appear to be intermediate. For, while our knowledge of our own minds is clearly empirical and our knowledge of other minds clearly transcendent, the former being coincident with our experience and the latter passin...g wholly beyond it, between these extremes there lie two cases of undoubted knowledge which seem to partake partly of the empirical and 222 WHY THE MIND HAS A BODY [chap.
partly of the transcendent character. These are per- ception and memory.
The case of memory, as the simpler, may be con- sidered first. It is clear that what is immediately given, and therefore alone empirically known, is not the entire stream of consciousness but only its present moment. Relatively to that moment, the past experience remembered is in the position of another mind, and the knowledge of it necessarily transcendent; and that quite irrespectively of the subtle question, whether that experience in any sense still exists.
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