 | William James - Pragmatism - 1907 - 336 pages
...these things only relatively true, or true within those borders of experience. 'Absolutely' they -3*. are false; for we know that those limits were casual,...understand backwards. The present sheds a backward 223 light on the world's previous processes. They may have been truth-processes for the actors in them.... | |
 | William James - Pragmatism - 1907 - 336 pages
...call these things only relatively true, or true within those borders of experience. 'Absolutely' they are false; for we know that those limits were casual,...true, even tho no past thinker had been led there. Wejive forwards, a Danish thinker has said, but we understand backward^ The present sheds a backward... | |
 | Electronic journals - 1907 - 1012 pages
...call these things only relatively true, or true within those borders of experience. 'Absolutely' they are false; for we know that those limits were casual,...past tense, what these judgments utter was true, even though no past thinker had been led there. We live forwards, a Danish thinker has said, but we understand... | |
 | Paul Carus - Electronic journals - 1908 - 786 pages
...call these things only relatively true, or true within those borders of experience. 'Absolutely' they are false ; for we know that those limits were casual,...past theorists just as they are by present thinkers." We will take up each single statement by itself. PTOLEMY AND COPERNICUS. Ptolemaic astronomy was not... | |
 | Jacob Gould Schurman, James Edwin Creighton, Frank Thilly, Gustavus Watts Cunningham - Electronic journals - 1908 - 734 pages
...his strictures on " intellectualism," and, I think, to modify his own account of truth. He writes : " When new experiences lead to retrospective judgments,...past tense, what these judgments utter was true, even though no past thinker had been led there." 2 Surely 1This journal, NoTember, 1907, p. 632; and article,... | |
 | Albert Schinz - Pragmatism - 1909 - 340 pages
...these things only relatively true, or true within those borders of experience. ' Absolutely ' they are false ; for we know that those limits were casual...past theorists just as they are by present thinkers " (p. 223). True, William James is right : " The general triumph method would mean an enormous change... | |
 | Albert Schinz - Pragmatism - 1909 - 328 pages
...further : " 'Absolutely ' they (these theories) are false; for we know that those limits (of experience) were casual, and might have been transcended by past theorists just as they are by present thinkers." And all this is perfectly evident. Only now, if James has employed the word " expedient " in the intellectualist... | |
 | Paul Carus - Pragmatism - 1911 - 152 pages
...call these things only relatively true, or true within those borders of experience. 'Absolutely' they are false ; for we know that those limits were casual,...past theorists just as they are by present thinkers." We will take up each single statement by itself. PTOLEMY AND COPERNICUS. Ptolemaic astronomy was not... | |
 | Ben-Ami Scharfstein Professor of Philosophy Tel-Aviv University - Philosophy - 1980 - 502 pages
...call these things only relatively true, or true within those borders of experience. 'Absolutely' they are false; for we know that those limits were casual,...past theorists just as they are by present thinkers. This statement by James is preceded by the well-known and once notorious sentences in which he tried... | |
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... tomorrow to call it falsehood. Ptolemaic astronomy, Euclidean space, Aristotelian logic, Scholastic metaphysics, were expedient for centuries, but human experience has boiled over those limits, and we now call these things only relatively true, or... 
