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Trinity/Add.Ms.a/207 contains:
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141 Joseph Jopling to William Whewell
142 S Jones to William Whewell
143 C N J to William Whewell
144 Joseph Kay to William Whewell
145 Joseph Kay to William Whewell
146 Philip Kelland to William Whewell
147 Philip Kelland to William Whewell
148 Philip Kelland to William Whewell
149 Johann J Kellner to William Whewell
150 Johann J Kellner to William Whewell
151 Johann J Kellner to William Whewell
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Title Philip Kelland to William Whewell
Reference 207/146
Covering Dates 13 May 1844
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Thanks WW for his paper [probably 'On the Fundamental Antihesis of Philosophy', Transactions of the Cambridge Philosophical Society, 7, pt. 2, 1845]: 'The question at issue [between WW and John Herschel] appears to me to be not about the [fact] of the [indifferent] action of the mind, but about its extent. Everyone admits, I presume, the suggestive agency of experience...The question is, does experience act as a directive power at all, and if so to what extent? The exact limitation which is to be assigned to it, is the real difficulty in the question to my mind'. PK cannot clearly reconcile WW's differences with John Herschel's or indeed WW's earlier views from his later ones. PK believes that the mind posseses an innate faculty of cognition, which is brought into action by the ''sense to produce perfect Conceptions''.

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