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" ... philosophers. He turns away from abstraction and insufficiency, from verbal solutions, from bad a priori reasons, from fixed principles, closed systems, and pretended absolutes and origins. He turns towards concreteness and adequacy, towards facts,... "
The Popular Science Monthly - Page 579
1909
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The Cornhill Magazine, Volume 42; Volume 115

William Makepeace Thackeray - Electronic journals - 1917 - 736 pages
...turns towards concreteness and adequacy, towards facts, towards action and towards power. . . . That means the open air and possibilities of nature as...artificiality and the pretence of finality in truth.' And Truth, to quote again from a former passage, can just now be vividly observed ' in the making '...
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Education, Volume 28

Education - 1908 - 710 pages
...rrpay/m (pragma), action, from which our word practice comes. As a system, it means " the empiricist temper regnant and the rationalist temper sincerely...artificiality and the pretence of finality in truth." It does not stand for any special results, but is " a method only." And what is the pragmatic method?...
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Pragmatism: A New Name for Some Old Ways of Thinking : Popular Lectures on ...

William James - Pragmatism - 1907 - 336 pages
...concreteness and adequacy, towards facts, towards action and towards power. That means the empiricist temper regnant and the rationalist temper sincerely...truth. At the same time it does not stand for any special^results^ It is a method only. But the general triumph of that method would mean an enormous...
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Pragmatism, a New Name for Some Old Ways of Thinking: Popular Lectures on ...

William James - Philosophy - 1907 - 336 pages
...towards power. That means the em-l'/ piricist temper regnant and the rationalist temper sincerely jjiyeji .up. It means the open' air and possibilities of nature,...truth. At the same time it does not stand for any n , special results j' It is a niethod_only.\ But the ^3 general triumph of that method would mean...
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Pragmatism: A New Name for Some Old Ways of Thinking : Popular Lectures on ...

William James - Pragmatism - 1907 - 336 pages
...towards/concrete- 1 ness and adequacy, towardsjacts, towards action_and towards power:) That means the ei piricist temper regnant and the rationalist temper sincerely...against] dogma, artificiality, and the pretence of finalitj in truth. At the same time it does not stand for any special results. It is a method only....
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The Philosophical Basis of Religion: A Series of Lectures

John Watson - Religion - 1907 - 524 pages
...understood, is " primarily a method of settling metaphysical disputes that otherwise might be interminable."1 At the same time it "does not stand for any special results. It is a method only."* After maintaining this guarded attitude for a number of years, Professor James seems at last to have...
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The Philosophical Review, Volume 16

Jacob Gould Schurman, James Edwin Creighton, Frank Thilly, Gustavus Watts Cunningham - Electronic journals - 1907 - 716 pages
...— those who sit on the bleachers and do the rooting. Pragmatism, according to Professor James, " does not stand for any special results. It is a method only" (p. 51). What then is the pragmatic method? It is "primarily a method of settling metav physical disputes...
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Philosophical Essays

Bertrand Russell - Philosophy - 1910 - 202 pages
...concreteness and adequacy, towards farts, towards action and towards power. That means the empiricist temper regnant and the rationalist temper sincerely...artificiality, and the pretence of finality in truth " (P- 50The temper of mind here described is one with which I, for my part, in the main cordially sympathise....
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Proceedings, Volume 8

Political science - 1912 - 214 pages
...elucidate the question of a future life by taking a pol1. William James claims for the pragmatist temper 'the open air and possibilities of nature, as against...artificiality, and the pretence of finality in truth.' A thing which simply is true, whether you like it or not, is to him as hateful as a Russian autocracy."...
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Scientific Method: Its Philosophy and Its Practice

Frederic William Westaway - Method (Philosophy) - 1912 - 474 pages
...That means the empiricist temper regnant, and the rationalist temper sincerely given up. l£ jneans the open air and possibilities of nature, as against dogma, artificiality. and the pretence of Ifiiality in truth."2 J ~Pragmatism unstiffens all our theories, limbers them up, and sets each one...
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