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The Mind and the Brain

CHAPTER II
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1865.] [Footnote 5: A few subtle philosophers have returned to it, as I shall show later in chapter iv.] [Footnote 6: Thus, the perplexity in which John Stuart Mill finds himself is very curious.

Having admitted unreservedly that our knowledge is confined to sensations, he is powerless to set up a reality outside this, and acknowledges that the principle of causality cannot legitimately be used to prove that our sensations have a cause which is not a sensation, because this principle cannot be applied outside the world of phenomena.] [Footnote 7: See p.

18, _sup_ .-- ED.].


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