The Groundwork of Science
by St George Jackson Mivart (9781458918475)

Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: CHAPTER III OBJECTS OF SCIENCE IN our enumeration of the principal sciences, as also in our initial chapter, we have taken .01 granted that the ordinary and spontaneous judgments of 'mankind as to tKe external worHj are"trua and valid. But before proceeding any further in our endeavour to apprehend the groundwork of our science., 1ye must carefully consider the question J?X/-l-,,-y- I V-C as to its objects. We must endeavtmr to attain as true a knowledge as possible concerning the nature of those things which science occupies itself about. The sciences of psychology and logic occupy themselves with the human mind, its powers and processes, its mental images, its feelings and emotions, its thoughts and infec= ences. But mechanics, astronomy, geoloffl biology, etc.7| are commonly thought to busy, themselves about things / s' whicji-though we apprehend them by mental acts, trulyf I exist independent of the mind, and form parts of a really existing external world. V-Now, of course, we can know nothing which we do not in some way perceive or indirectly gain information about by eye or ear or some sense organ, and everything we apprehend we apprehend as in various ways related to other things, as well as to our own mind. Every object, therefore, of which science can take cognisance, is only known to us through a variety of mental states which we term feelings, reminiscences, inferences, or apprehensions, and amongst the latter are apprehensions of such object's relations: both its relations to other things and its relations within its own being?its external and internal relations. Every object, therefore, looked at as regards our apprehension of it?i. e., merely subjectively?may be said to consist of a plexus of such mental states or " states of consciousne...

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