And then again?
... Nothing exists but the sensations and ideas in our minds, and there is no external material reality corresponding to them.
And then again, this subjective idealism is put forward in the form of a doctrine concerning knowledge: it denies that we can know anything about objective reality outside ourselves, and says that we can have knowledge of appearances only and not of "things in themselves".
Materialism and the Dialectical Method (Maurice Cornforth)
What does "and then again"? Does it mean "and, on the other hand"?
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XVIWhat does "and then again"? Does it mean "and, on the other hand"?
Yes, something like that, but the writer did not know that. He made a mistake. He meant "furthermore".
"used when you have had a new thought that is different from or the opposite of what you have just said:
I like to travel but, then again, I'm very fond of my home." (
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