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Ideas of Stephen S. Colvin, by Text
[American, 1869 - 1923, Professor at Brown University.]
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1902
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The Common-Sense View of Reality
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p.140
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p.140
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20726
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We can only distinguish self from non-self if there is an inflexible external reality
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p.141
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p.141
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20727
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Common-sense realism rests on our interests and practical life
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p.144
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p.144
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20728
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Metaphysics is hopeless with its present epistemology; common-sense realism is needed
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p.145
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p.145
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20730
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If objects are doubted because their appearances change, that presupposes one object
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p.145
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p.145
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20729
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Arguments that objects are unknowable or non-existent assume the knower's existence
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p.150
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p.150
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20731
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The idea that everything is relations is contradictory; relations are part of the concept of things
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