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The ‘argument from consciousness’ is to meet the criteria of experientiality, consistency and economy. This is the argument which is to exemplify consistently sceptical reasoning and serve as the prototype of scepticism for the purposes of this inquiry. If it is to do so, it must proceed from some apodictic, indubitable facts or events, which are not exposed to doubt, either when they occur, or at any time before or after their occurrence. This is a large order, and requires careful consideration.
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Sir William Hamilton, Lectures on Metaphysics, I, 191.
Bertrand Russell, An Inquiry Into Meaning and Truth, Ch. 4.
Ibid.
Reference will be made to the work of Ehrenfels, Helmholtz, Koffka, Köhler, Wertheimer and their followers.
Wolfgang Köhler, Gestalt Psychology, ch. VI. 2 Ibid.
For still further implications of this thesis, cf. my study ‘Is the Primary-Language an Object-Language?’, in Foundations of Language, I. (1965) pp. 157–170.
A. J. Ayer, The Problem of Knowledge, ‘Are mistakes about one’s own immediate experience only verbal?’
Ibid.
Ibid.
Gilbert Ryle, The Concept of Mind, IV, 4.
Ludwig Wittgenstein, Philosophical Investigations, § 244.
Ayer, op. cit.
Ibid.
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Laszlo, E. (1966). Root Axiom: “Consciousness”. In: Beyond Scepticism and Realism. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-017-6617-3_5
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