time in the ordinary ways..? Passage 1
In every system of morality, the author proceeds for some time in the ordinary ways of reasoning, and establishes the being of a God, or makes observations concerning human affairs; when of a sudden I am surprised to find, that instead of the usual copulations of proposition that is, and is not, I meet with no proposition that is not connected with an ought, or an ought not. This change is imperceptible; but is however, of the last consequence.
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Passage 2
Thinking is an active process and the static conception of a thought is its opposite. Where thinking is the vitality of psychological being, a thoguht is opposed to that vitality. No sense or imagining of something beyond or external to the act of thinking in itself for the thinker can be real, and therefore cannot be said to exist, even if, to continue the act of thinking, it must be said that it does exist as a creation of the act of thinking if even it remains unreal.
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4. Which of the following statements might both authors be likely to agree is true?
A. Nothing that humans think up is ever true.
B. The human mind plays an active role in all forms of reasoning.
C. Human psychological being is vital yet badly flawed.
D. We ought not allow ourselves to think that our thoughts are real.
E. Human beings exist only because they think they exist
In every system of morality, the author proceeds for some time in the ordinary ways of reasoning, and establishes the being of a God, or makes observations concerning human affairs; when of a sudden I am surprised to find, that instead of the usual copulations of proposition that is, and is not, I meet with no proposition that is not connected with an ought, or an ought not. This change is imperceptible; but is however, of the last consequence.
lines 1-6
Passage 2
Thinking is an active process and the static conception of a thought is its opposite. Where thinking is the vitality of psychological being, a thoguht is opposed to that vitality. No sense or imagining of something beyond or external to the act of thinking in itself for the thinker can be real, and therefore cannot be said to exist, even if, to continue the act of thinking, it must be said that it does exist as a creation of the act of thinking if even it remains unreal.
lines 7-12
4. Which of the following statements might both authors be likely to agree is true?
A. Nothing that humans think up is ever true.
B. The human mind plays an active role in all forms of reasoning.
C. Human psychological being is vital yet badly flawed.
D. We ought not allow ourselves to think that our thoughts are real.
E. Human beings exist only because they think they exist