CHAPTER 4
The World
As Percept
Empiricism
(Sun)
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| 4-0 [0] Through thinking, concepts and ideas arise. What a concept is cannot be expressed in words. Words can do no more than draw our attention to the fact that we have concepts. When someone sees a tree, his thinking reacts to his observation, an ideal element is added to the object, and he considers the object and the ideal complement as belonging together. When the object disappears from his field of observation, only the ideal counterpart of it remains. This latter is the concept of the object. 4-1 [0](Materialism) Concepts cause and effect 4-2 [0] (Spiritism [0]) Conceptual reference 4-3 [0] (Realism) Conceptual relationship between observations 4-4 [0] (Idealism) Correcting picture of the world 4-5 [0] (Mathematism [0]) Mathematical & qualitative dependence of picture 4-6 [0] (Rationalism [0]) Percept exists only in subjective perception 4-7 [0] (Psychism [0]) Mental picture: After-effect of observation 4-8 [0] (Pneumatism [0]) Mental picture: Change in ourselves caused by unknown thing-in-itself 4-9 [0] (Monadism [0]) Mental picture: What our organization transmits to us of external object 4-10 [0] (Dynamism [0]) Product of soul transferred to external world 4-11 [0](Phenomenalism [0]) External percept is mental picture 4-12 [0] (Sensationalism [0]) Mental picture: Modification of real eye and real hand |