Excerpts from the Book 'Pragmatism':

... than any of his more strictly objective premises. It loads the evidence for him one way or the other, making for a more sentimental or a more hard-hearted ...
... mixtures which I have written down are each inwardly coherent and self-consistent or not-I shall very soon have a good deal to say on that point. It ...
... says F. H. Bradley (Appearance and Reality, 204). He means that these slain men make the universe richer, and that is Philosophy. But while essors ...
... and the rationalist temper sincerely given up. It means the open air and possibilities of nature, as against dogma, artificiality and the pretence ...
... are proposed in all the branches of science that investigators have become accustomed to the notion that no theory is absolutely a transcript of reality, ...
... also helpful in life's practical struggles. If there be any life that it is really better we should lead, and if there be any idea which, if believed ...
... as often held, may be simply a state of admiration for one kind, and of dislike for another kind, of abstraction. I remember a worthy spiritualist ...
... that they have once evolved. You all know the picture of the last state of the universe which evolutionary science foresees. I cannot state it better ...
... scientific and individualistic in their tone yet not irreligious either. It will be an alteration in 'the seat of authority' that reminds one almost of ...
... or hardship puts us agreeably to our trumps. We can vaguely generalize this into the doctrine that all the evil in the universe is but instrumental ...
... connexion fails to obtain. And finally it is growing more and more unified by those systems of connexion at least which human energy keeps framing as ...
... for kind and sameness of kind are logic's only instruments. Once we know that whatever is of a kind is also of that kind's kind, we can travel ...
... newly put into our hand by scientific ways of thinking vastly exceeds the scope of the old control grounded on common sense. Its rate of increase accelerates ...
... been singled out as such, would never have acquired a class-name, least of all a name suggesting value, unless they had been useful from the outset in ...
... are the root of the whole matter, and the condition of there being any habit to exist in the intervals. 'The true,' to put it very briefly, is only ...
... as the why of it. Neither content nor motive can be imagine for it. It is an absolutely meaningless abstraction. [Footnote: I am not forgetting ...
... describing it as it is already. But may not our descriptions, Lotze asks, be themselves important additions to reality. And may not previous reality ...
... is impossible not to see a temperamental difference at work in the choice of sides. The rationalist mind, radically taken, is of a doctrinaire and authoritative ...
... you are. claim your own at any hazard. These shows of the east and west are tame, compared to you These immense meadows-these interminable rivers-you ...
... called religious, if you allow that religion can be pluralistic or merely melioristic in type. But whether you will finally put up with that type of ...