 | Electronic journals - 1879 - 626 pages
...distinguished by the different modes of action to which they give rise. There is no distinction of meaning so fine as to consist in anything but a possible difference of practice. Our idea of anything is our idea of its sensible effects. To attain the highest degree of clearness... | |
 | Paul Carus - Electronic journals - 1892 - 760 pages
...real distinction of thought, no matter how subtile it may be ; and there is no distinction of meaning so fine as to consist in anything but a possible difference of practice" (ibid. p. 293). Mr. Peirce is very far from considering philosophy as a mere matter of speculation... | |
 | Science - 1878 - 804 pages
...real distinction of thought, no matter how subtile it may be ; and there is no distinction of meaning so fine as to consist in anything but a possible difference of practice. To see what this principle leads to, consider in the light of it such a doctrine as that of transubstantiation.... | |
 | William James - Conversion - 1902 - 558 pages
...significance; and the tangible fact at the root of all our thought-distinctions is that there is no one of them so fine as to consist in anything but a possible difference...attain perfect clearness in our thoughts of an object, we need then only consider what sensations, immediate or remote, we are conceivably to expect from... | |
 | William James - Abstraction - 1902 - 560 pages
...; and the tangible fact at the root of all our thought-distinctions is that there is no one of them so fine as to consist in anything but a possible difference of practice. To attain perfect clearness in our 1 Jp «n article. How to make our Ideas Clear, in the Popular Science MontMy for January, 1878, vol.... | |
 | United States - 1898 - 592 pages
...tangible fact at the root of all our thought-distinctions, however subtle, is that there is no one of them so fine as to consist in anything but a possible difference...thoughts of an object, then, we need only consider what effects of a conceivably practical kind the object may involve — what sensations we are to expect... | |
 | 1906 - 906 pages
...significance; and the tangible fact at the root of all our thought distinctions is that there is no one of them so fine as to consist in anything but a possible difference of practice. To attain perfect clearness in our * Lex Orandi. P. xxxi. thoughts of an object, we need, then, consider only what sensations, immediate... | |
 | 1906 - 914 pages
...significance; and the tangible fact at the root of all our thought distinctions is that there is no one of them so fine as to consist in anything but a possible difference of practice. To attain perfect clearness in our * Lex Orandi. P. xxxi. thoughts of an object, we need, then, consider only what sensations, immediate... | |
 | William James - Pragmatism - 1907 - 336 pages
...tangible fact at the root of all our thoughtdistinctions, however subtle, is that there is no one of them so fine as to consist in anything but a possible difference...object, then, we need only consider what conceivable 1 Translated in the Revue Philosophiquefai January, 1879 (vol. vii). 46 effects of a practical kind... | |
 | William James - Pragmatism - 1907 - 336 pages
...tangible fact at the root of all our thoughtdistinctions, however subtle, is that there is no one of them so fine as to consist in anything but a possible difference...object, then, we need only consider what conceivable 1 Translated in the Revue Philosophique for January, 1879 (vol. vii). 46 f If WHAT PRAGMATISM MEANS... | |
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Thus, we come down to what is tangible and practical as the root of every real distinction of thought, no matter how subtile it may be; and there is no distinction of meaning so fine as to consist in anything but a possible difference of practice. 
