 | William James - Pragmatism - 1907 - 336 pages
...thoughts and beliefs ' 'pass,' so long as nothing challenges them, just as bank-notes pass so long as nobody refuses them. But this all points to direct...verification in the usual business of life is that all things exi; in kinds and not singly. Our world is found \ once for all to have that peculiarity. So that when... | |
 | Electronic journals - 1907 - 1012 pages
...just as bank notes pass so long as nobody refuses them. But this all points to direct face-to-face verifications somewhere, without which the fabric of truth collapses like a financial system with no cash basis whatever. You accept my verification of one thing, I yours of another. We trade on each... | |
 | Josiah Royce - Ethics - 1908 - 446 pages
...verification somewhere, without which the fabric of truth collapses like a financial system with no cash basis whatever. You accept my verification of one thing,...somebody are the posts of the whole superstructure." The indirectly verifiable ideas, that is, the ideas which somebody else verifies, or even those which... | |
 | Leslie Joseph Walker - Knowledge - 1910 - 748 pages
...long as nobody refuses them. . . . You accept my verification of one thing, I yours of another. . . . But beliefs verified concretely by somebody are the posts of the whole superstructure.1 Truth-processes are also useful. In The Meaning of Truth ' utility ' is not so prominent... | |
 | David Starr Jordan - Reality - 1911 - 206 pages
...just as banknotes pass so long as nobody refuses them. But this all points to direct, face-to-face verifications somewhere, without which the fabric of truth collapses like a financial system with no cash basis whatever. You accept my verification of one thing, I yours of another. We trade on each... | |
 | Henri Johan Frans Willem Brugmans - Humanism - 1913 - 216 pages
...just as bank-notes pass so long as nobody refuses them. But this all points to direct face-to-face verifications somewhere, without which the fabric...yours of another. We trade on each other's truth. Indirectly or only potentially verifying processes may thus be true as well as full verification-processes.... | |
 | Elias St. Elmo Lewis - Business - 1915 - 498 pages
...just as banknotes pass so long as nobody refuses them. But this all points to direct, face-to-face verifications somewhere, without which the fabric of truth collapses like a financial system with no cash basis whatever. You accept my verification of one thing, I yours of another. We trade each other's... | |
 | Margaret Young Henry - Philosophy, Ancient - 1925 - 136 pages
...verified truth in James, (Pragmatism, p. 207-8). "But all this points to direct face-to-face verification somewhere, without which the fabric of truth collapses like a financial system with no cash basis whatever . . . The abtruth to which man can only approximate now shall be verified and known.... | |
 | Bruce Kuklick - Philosophy - 1979 - 712 pages
...allowed the verifications of others: I believe my wife if she tells me that there is coffee on the sheW “You accept my verification of one thing, I yours...concretely by somebody are the posts of the whole superstructure.”26 Did this mean that objects of true beliefs did not exist before verification?... | |
 | Charles S. Peirce - Philosophy - 1982 - 388 pages
...just as bank notes pass so long as nobody refuses them. But this all points to direct face-to-face verifications somewhere, without which the fabric of truth collapses like a financial system with no cash basis whatever. You accept my verification of one thing, I yours of another. We trade on each... | |
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Truth lives, in fact, for the most part on a credit system. Our thoughts and beliefs 'pass,' so long as nothing challenges them, just as bank-notes pass so long as nobody refuses them. But this all points to direct face-toface verifications somewhere,... 
