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Psychologic automatism.
Automatic motion (sans consciousness in the whole individual) of an arm is the effect of a cause — will in the cells, molecules, or etc., which constitutes that arm.
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What is double personality?
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Every spiritual act has the character of absoluteness or of infinity. Thought is neither extended nor temporal. It is the sensation of that thought which is in time and in space.
“To say judgment, reasoning, etc. is but the displacement of molecules is to talk nonsense. The phainomena are none the less heterogeneous.”
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Definition of cause (Schopenhauer): “The antecedent modification which renders necessary the consequent modification.”
(Scholastic): “Per causam intelligo id quo sublato tollitur effectus.” This last definition has the defect of being also applicable to the conditions of a fact (phainomenon).
Cf. taking away space and time.
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Definition: “By necessary is understood all that results from a given sufficient reason.”
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“The Ego,” says Taine, “is but a property common to all the phenomena of consciousness, the property that they have of appearing to us as interior, abstracted from these phenomena and transformed by words into substance.”
Is this not an argument similar to the Idea-argument of Plato?
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