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The Life of Reason by George Santayana
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architecture.--Incoherences.--Nature the true system of
conditions.--Artificial pathos in subjectivism.--Berkeley's
algebra of perception.--Horror of physics.--Puerility in
morals.--Truism and sophism.--Reality is the practical made
intelligible.--Vain "realities" and trustworthy "fictions"


CHAPTER V--NATURE UNIFIED AND MIND DISCERNED Pages 118-136
Man's feeble grasp of nature.--Its unity ideal and discoverable
only by steady thought.--Mind the erratic residue of
existence.--Ghostly character of mind.--Hypostasis and criticism
both need control.--Comparative constancy in objects and in
ideas.--Spirit and sense defined by their relation to
nature.--Vague notions of nature involve vague notions of
spirit.--Sense and spirit the life of nature, which science
redistributes but does not deny


CHAPTER VI--DISCOVERY OF FELLOW-MINDS Pages 137-160
Another background for current experience may be found in alien
minds.--Two usual accounts of this conception criticised: analogy
between bodies, and dramatic dialogue in the soul.--Subject and
object empirical, not transcendental, terms.--Objects originally
soaked in secondary and tertiary qualities.--Tertiary qualities
transposed.--Imputed mind consists of the tertiary qualities of
perceived body--"Pathetic fallacy" normal, yet ordinarily
fallacious.--Case where it is not a fallacy.--Knowledge succeeds
only by accident.--Limits of insight.--Perception of
character.--Conduct divined, consciousness ignored.--Consciousness
untrustworthy.--Metaphorical mind.--Summary
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