Show B 1 COLLEGE ITE kl S students furnish another breezy budget NOTES or OF MEETINGS OL CLASSES students society program balu of classes locals and other matters the properties of substances appear to be tran thus color depends on how bow the light 21 S strikes rikes t the object weight on how the object dectis is attracted etc iffe if we could 1111 imagine ine all the properties done away with what would remain has been called erion it is not true that if all the properties were done away with that something 0 would till still remain nevertheless it has been found convenient to distinguish AD the thin thing from its appearance to us its that is to distinguish the nour loumena nena from its phenomena what hat is left after the properties have disappeared we call substance or being we prec eive directly two beings 0 one is the subject the other is the object or what self perceives perceive there are two sets of realities perceived in addition to the two we have already studied we have studied sense perception and conscious perception sense tion ion gave us objects acting 0 conscious perception gave us the he subject acting 0 nonmetal Non menal perception gives us 1 the nays N ays in which objects must act and be known by us 2 the ways in which the subject must act there are certain principles of our knowing oving objects in sense perception cep tion or certain ways in which objects must exist and be revealed to the understanding 0 there certain ways are called necessary elements or principles of knowing these are alo necessary 1 conditions under which objects exist pluto plato taught tau za ht that the mind is full of latent ideas which became actual ideas as aa soon as the proper objects of senea sensation tion fill them out lie ile held that the mind hall had ideas in it just like all the things there are descartes taught tau lit that we are arc endowed with bertlin certain capabilities and tendencies to know things in certain ways only and these tendencies ies he called intuitions john looke made an elaborate attack on this doctrine he held that the mind is like a blank sheet to begin with on which sensations print themselves like letters on the pages r of a book ile he ridiculed innate ideas before looke got t through 0 h with irith his work on t the he human huma n mind he be began to speak of its tt operations of its powers and tendencies the intuitions tire are simply the methods b by V which i the mind works up tho the sensations and converts them into knowledge LeiU Lello intz says the mind is full of characters 1 which aich sensation reveals hut but does not impart he Ife compares it to a sculptor who in chiseling chi 0 a statue comes upon veins tracing on out it th the c exact image tl that bat he is to carve sedgwick says gays the mind is like a paper written with invisible ink but as soon as it cornes comes in contact the world of sensation the invisible characters stand out the mind is blank of knowledge to begin with but he be says it has already been touched with a cel celestial S hand and as soon oon as it is plunged n into the colors which surround it takes lakes its tint not from acel accident dent but from design d sian and comes forth with a glorious pattern 17 that this is true is evident from the fact that sensation gives ives no knowledge till it has been 6 discriminated compared and classified by bv the power of the mind itself knowledge 0 is not an activity of sensation we can perceive time the idea is awakened b by experience first an all event A follows another event B D if A should hould vanish fron from I 1 consciousness and B should appear there would indeed be a change of events but no knowledge of sue suc assion unless A and B are arc united into a series and considered as such by the mind itself there must be an abiding self which remembers and is in contrast with the eban changing 0 in were it not so the clock might C one repeatedly boutwe but we should not know that it struck ten unless wo we bind the separate strikes together and regard them as one N |