This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1884 Excerpt: ... in it; while at the same time it is somehow so qualitatively determined, that our mental vision can assign it its place only in the past branch of apparent Time. I will allow, however, that this last reply yields no result. The Past indeed, of which we believe ourselves already to have had living experience, one may ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1884 Excerpt: ... in it; while at the same time it is somehow so qualitatively determined, that our mental vision can assign it its place only in the past branch of apparent Time. I will allow, however, that this last reply yields no result. The Past indeed, of which we believe ourselves already to have had living experience, one may try to exhibit as a system of things which has never run a course in Time, and which only consciousness, for its own benefit, expands into a preceding history in Time. But how then would the case stand with the Future, which we suppose ourselves still on the way to meet? Let s according to the symbols previously used, stand for this Ego, which si and J, never really preceded but always seem to have preceded, what then is f4 which s2 in turn will thus seem to have preceded? What could prevent fs from being conscious also of sv its own future, if the temporal signs which teach us to assign to single impressions their position in Time, depended only on the systematic position which belongs to their causes in the complex of conditions of a timeless universe? It may be that the content of st, which follows systematically upon is not determined merely by the conditions, which are contained in s, and previously in j, and sv but jointly by others, resting on the states of other beings which do not cross those of S till a later stage of the system. For that reason st might be obscure to J2 and this might constitute the temporal character which gives it in the consciousness of the stamp of something future. But if this were the case, the process would have to stop at this point. It would only be for another being st that what was Future to s2 could, owing to its later place in the system, be present. On the other hand in a timeless system there wo...
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