A Lil Ol’ Time Philosophy |
| Published: June 29, 2007, 5:18 pm |
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This from James Ward’s Naturalism and Agnosticism (1899): But as regards the bare fact of presentation there is nothing to be said; it is that relation of subject to object and of object to subject, in virtue of which they are severally subject and object. As the absolutely ultimate relation within experience we can either say that it is inexplicable or that it needs no explanation, or we may entertain the notion of an Absolute, in whom the unity of experience outlasts the duality. But one thing, I think, we must not do: we must not attempt to bring this relation of subject and object under the category of cause and effect. I do not mean to deny that there are causal relations between subject and object, object and subject–quite the contrary. I only demur to the assumption that the subject-object relation is itself causal. Without meddling with any of the many vexed questions concerning causation, it is at least clear that causes must be real before they can be [ Full article ] |
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