Man is pre-eminently endowed with the power of voluntarily and consciously determining his own point of view.

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  A colour is a physical object as soon as we consider its dependence, for instance, upon its luminou

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  Bodies do not produce sensations, but complexes of elements (complexes of sensations) make up bodie

• Ernst Mach:

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  The plain man is familiar with blindness and deafness, and knows from his everyday experience that

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  The biological task of science is to provide the fully developed human individual with as perfect a

• Ernst Mach:

  The fact is, every thinker, every philosopher, the moment he is forced to abandon his one-sided int