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Title: The Americana; a universal reference library, comprising the arts and sciences, literature, history, biography, geography, commerce, etc., of the world
Year: 1908 (1900s)
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Subjects: Encyclopedias and dictionaries
Publisher: New York : Scientific American Compiling Dept.
Contributing Library: University of California Libraries
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y withreference to the facts of experience: but thedata of sense get all their form, coherence,structure, meaning, onlv through the fact thatour intelligence is guided in its activity bycertain catecories. and formative principles, interms of which we interpret these data, viewthem as due to coherent objects of experience.*and connect these objects so that the latterform the world of experience. Without theintelligence, then, with its forms. no coherentexperience is possible. Sense shows us. by itselfalone, no objects, no connections of objects, nclaws, no facts, no world. That we appear tofind, in our world of perception, connectedthings, subject to laws, is due to the more orless hidden work of our intelligence, whichgives form to the otherwise incoherent sensa-tions. That we all have the same phenomenalworld to deal with is due to the fact that in-telligence is common to us all. in the sameforms. In consequence, v hat we know, and whatour sciences of experience study, is neith-^r a
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GEORGE WILHELM FRIEDKICII HEGEL. HEGEL world of things simply given to us as brutefacts from without, nor yet a world of meresensations. On the contrary, what we know isthe world of experience as our active intelli-gence inevitably interprets experience. Hencewe know, not things in tlemselves, but phe-nomena, and not mere data of experience,but experiences as interpreted by the activeconstructive work of our intelligence. Meanwhile, our intelligence, upon its higherlevels, is indeed not content with this mereinterpretation of the contents of sense, but,—still in its own spontaneous way,— definesideals of objects and of laws which far tran-scend,— according to our own conception,—the facts of experience. T.ie Reason proper,as distinct from the Understanding (that is,from the intelligence which merely interpretsand renders coherent our experience), is thepart or aspect of our intelligence which is con-cerned with these other and transcendent*objects. The objects of the Reason pr

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