A pragmatist turns his back resolutely and once for all upon a lot of inveterate habits dear to professional philosophers.. He turns away from abstraction and insufficiency, from verbal solutions, from bad a priori reasons, from fixed principles, closed... The Popular Science Monthly - Page 5791909Full view - About this book
| William James - Pragmatism - 1907 - 336 pages
...all upon a lot of inveterate habits dear to professional philosophers. He turns away from abstraction and insufficiency, from verbal solutions, from bad...facts, towards action and towards power. That means the empiricist temper regnant and the rationalist temper sincerely given up. It means the open air and... | |
| William James - Philosophy - 1907 - 336 pages
...fessional philosophers. JH.4 turns away from / abstraction and insufficiency, from verbal solu/ tions, from bad a priori reasons, from fixed principles,...concreteness and adequacy, towards facts, towards act- ^\ ion and towards power. That means the em-l'/ piricist temper regnant and the rationalist temper... | |
| William James - Pragmatism - 1907 - 342 pages
...solutions, from bad a priori reasons,, from fixed principles,j;losed systpmsj and prrtondod nbin lutes and origins. He turns towards concreteness and adequacy,...facts, towards action and towards power/ That means the empiricist temper regnant and the rationalist M temper sincerely given up. It means the opeji air and... | |
| William James - Pragmatism - 1907 - 336 pages
...upon a lot of inveterate habits dear to proi fessional philosophers. He_turns away__frojn abstraction and insufficiency, from verbal solutions, from bad...from fixed principles, closed systems, and pretended absolutes_andorigins. He turns towards concreteness and adequacy, towards facts, towards action and... | |
| Paul Carus - Electronic journals - 1908 - 786 pages
...professional philosophers. He turns away from abstractions .... from fixed principles, closed systems .... He turns towards concreteness and adequacy, towards facts, towards action and towards power." He adds p. 51 : "That means the empiricist temper regnant and the rationalist temper sincerely given... | |
| Bertrand Russell - Philosophy - 1910 - 202 pages
...philosophers. He turns away from abstraction and insufficiency, from verbal solutions, from bad ,//;-/"/•/ reasons, from fixed principles, closed systems, and...He turns towards concreteness and adequacy, towards farts, towards action and towards power. That means the empiricist temper regnant and the rationalist... | |
| Paul Carus - Pragmatism - 1911 - 160 pages
...professional philosophers. He turns away from abstractions.... from fixed principles, closed systems.... He turns towards concreteness and adequacy, towards facts, towards action and towards power." He adds p. 51: "That means the empiricist temper regnant and the rationalist temper sincerely given... | |
| University of Pennsylvania - 1917 - 922 pages
...all upon a lot of inveterate habits dear to professional philosophers. He turns away from abstraction and insufficiency, from verbal solutions, from bad...facts, towards action and towards power. That means the empiricist temper regnant and the rationalist temper sincerely given up. It means the open air and... | |
| William Makepeace Thackeray - Electronic journals - 1917 - 780 pages
...pragmatism. ' It preserves,' says its genial apologist, ' a cordial relation with facts. . . . The pragmatist turns towards concreteness and adequacy, towards facts,...towards action and towards power. . . . That means the open air and possibilities of nature as against dogma, artificiality and the pretence of finality in... | |
| Francis Hackett - English fiction - 1918 - 404 pages
...all upon a lot of inveterate habits dear to professional philosophers. He turns away from abstraction and insufficiency, from verbal solutions, from bad...facts, towards action and towards power. That means the empiricist temper regnant and the rationalist temper sincerely given up. It means the open air and... | |
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