The old problem of how to get at the real nature of the external world when all that we know of it is it6 effect upon our own senses ard minds, is certainly not elucidate fed by this intellectual three-card trickery. It is not the real difficulty of the problem that led to this particular confusion. The fault ies in Mr. Ruseoll's inexactitude of Statement, and in that appalling carelessness about the right use of words which characterizes #0 much modern "philosophy." Philosopher after philosopher comes along, each eaten up with the desire to refute his predecessors, even when he i editing or expounding them; ard teach bewildering the reader with an array of terms to which no exact meaning is attached. The late Mr. F. H. Bradley (whose style was enthusiastically praised by writers who did not understand him) wast-jed scores of pages on verbal qi Les. He would take a phrase "grass in green;" and, deliberately. misinterpreting that Tittle word "is. waste n whole chapter in discussing whether we mean that the essential substance of grass is greenness.
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old, wasa Man 2nd both his chapter and his pro-Petneter far more proteind blem remains—the problem whic Philosophers. have "been setting themselves in one form or another since thought began—the problem of how to get at the real nature of the external world in itself wha all the knowledge we possess, or fan ever hope to possess, about i consists of its effect upon our own senses and mind. It is a problem that can never be solved by the Philosophical method of sitting la a basket and endeavouring to lift ourselves into the air by tugging at its sides.
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