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• Title: Book: PoF: Introduction by Michael Wilson
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  • and I have kept it. It describes the process of taking an abstract
• Title: Book: PoF: Author's Prefaces: Preface to the first edition, 1894; revised, 1918
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  • The book leads at first into somewhat abstract regions,
  • method their artistic technique. Abstract thinking thus takes
• Title: Book: PoF: Knowledge of Freedom: Chapter One: Conscious Human Action
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  • that proceed from abstract judgment. But as soon as our
• Title: Book: PoF: Knowledge of Freedom: Chapter Four: The World as Percept
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  • can bring it into reflective and abstract consciousness. If he
• Title: Book: PoF: Knowledge of Freedom: Chapter Five: The Act of Knowing the World
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  • “abstract” thinking the bearer of unity in the world,
  • that thinking is abstract, without any concrete content; it can at most give
• Title: Book: PoF: Knowledge of Freedom: Chapter Six: Human Individuality
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  • living in abstract conceptual systems are alike incapable of
• Title: Book: PoF: Knowledge of Freedom: Chapter Seven: Are There Limits to Knowledge?
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  • one were to import a few abstract elements from the world
  • thought. Position and motion are abstracted from the rich
  • world into a mere abstract. scheme of concepts, did he not
  • real; the single idea of the tulip is to him an abstraction, the
  • oneself in abstractions, one will realize that for a knowledge of
• Title: Book: PoF: Reality of Freedom: Chapter Eight: The Factors of Life
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  • but the lifeless abstraction, the corpse of the living thinking.
  • If we look only at this abstraction, we may easily find ourselves
  • soul should appear lifeless and abstract. No other activity of
  • reality, forms out of “abstract thoughts” a shadowy, chilly
• Title: Book: PoF: Reality of Freedom: Chapter Nine: The Idea of Freedom
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  • form of abstract concepts, may regulate the individual's moral life without
• Title: Book: PoF: Reality of Freedom: Chapter Ten: Freedom - Philosophy and Monism
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  • abstract inner voice which it interprets as “conscience”;
  • abstracted from the sense perceptible world and who do
  • because they misunderstand it as a merely abstracting
• Title: Book: PoF: Reality of Freedom: Chapter Twelve: Moral Imagination
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  • an abstract ideal but is a directive force inherent in human
• Title: Book: PoF: Reality of Freedom: Chapter Thirteen: The Value of Life
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  • We never aim at a certain quantity of pleasure in the abstract, but at
  • “happiness” in the abstract; and fulfillment is for him a
  • abstract ideas may establish their dominion unopposed by any strong
  • Creator; nor does he fulfill an abstract duty which he recognizes as such
• Title: Book: PoF: Reality of Freedom: Chapter Fourteen: Individuality and Genus
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  • abstract thoughts and generic concepts is but a preparation
• Title: Book: PoF: Ultimate Questions: The Consequences of Monism
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  • imagination. Monism refuses to infer in an abstract way that
  • determines the percept as having the abstract form of a
  • real, he is thinking of it only in the abstract form in which
  • with nature. An abstract concept taken by itself has as little
  • nothing but abstract concepts. Reality is not contained in the
  • abstract concept; it is, however, contained in thoughtful
  • means of abstract conceptual hypotheses (through pure
  • out of mere abstract concepts, because it sees in the concept
  • through abstract inference is nothing but a human being
  • of two abstractions drawn from experience. Exactly
  • beyond our given world is an abstraction to which no reality
  • regards as equally incomplete all abstract concepts that do
  • such ideas monism regards as abstractions borrowed from
• Title: Book: PoF: Appendix Added to the new edition, 1918
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  • what follows as a remote and unnecessary tissue of abstract