
This volume explores how our minds move from raw sensory data to abstract ideas, distinguishing geometric concepts from the sensible impressions that accompany them. It investigates the nature of being, unity, and number, asking how we perceive substance, identity, and multiplicity. Throughout, the author engages with the insights of Kant, Aristotle, and other classic thinkers, framing the discussion within a rigorous philosophical tradition.
The second half turns to the elusive dimensions of time and the infinite, probing whether time is an absolute measure or a relational construct and confronting the paradoxes of an actual infinite. By tracing these concepts back to their intellectual roots, the work reveals their relevance to contemporary questions about reality and knowledge. Listeners who appreciate thoughtful, scholarly analysis will find this treatise a compelling guide through some of philosophy’s most enduring puzzles.
Language
en
Duration
~16 hours (951K characters)
Publisher of text edition
Project Gutenberg
Credits
Produced by Josep Cols Canals, Les Galloway and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net (This file was produced from images generously made available by The Internet Archive/American Libraries.)
Release date
2015-06-20
Rights
Public domain in the USA.
Subjects

1810–1848
A sharp Spanish Catholic thinker of the early 19th century, he wrote with unusual clarity about philosophy, politics, and religion. His books helped make him one of the best-known Catholic apologists in Spain before his early death at just thirty-seven.
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