Philosophic Classics From Plato to Derrida

THEFIXATION OFBELIEF 1013 opinion. We may fancy that this is not enough for us, and that we seek, not merely an opinion, but a t ...

1014 CHARLESSANDERSPEIRCE not believe so-and-so, because I should be wretched if I did.” When an ostrich buries its head in the ...

THEFIXATION OFBELIEF 1015 In judging this method of fixing belief, which may be called the method of authority, we must, in the ...

1016 CHARLESSANDERSPEIRCE one way will afford him more pleasure than acting in another. This rests on no fact in the world, but ...

THEFIXATION OFBELIEF 1017 with all the others. 2. The feeling which gives rise to any method of fixing belief is a dissatisfacti ...

1018 CHARLESSANDERSPEIRCE you are, let it be known that you seriously hold a tabooed belief, and you may be perfectly sure of be ...

1019 William James was born into one of the leading families of New York City. His grandfather, a strict Calvinist and also name ...

1020 WILLIAMJAMES In 1878, James married Alice Howe Gibbens, and they had five children. Although James had experienced ill heal ...

PRAGMATISM 1021 For general works on pragmatism, see the introduction to Peirce (page 1008). For biographies of James, see Gay W ...

1022 WILLIAMJAMES Guaranty Building, Buffalo, New York, 1895, designed by Louis Sullivan (1856–1924). Sullivan’s building epitom ...

PRAGMATISM 1023 farther dispute. You are both right and both wrong according as you conceive the verb ‘to go round’ in one pract ...

1024 WILLIAMJAMES That is, the rival views mean practically the same thing, and meaning, other than practical, there is for us n ...

PRAGMATISM 1025 Metaphysics has usually followed a very primitive kind of quest. You know how men have always hankered after unl ...

1026 WILLIAMJAMES first laws,were discovered, men were so carried away by the clearness, beauty and sim- plification that result ...

PRAGMATISM 1027 The result is an inward trouble to which his mind till then had been a stranger, and from which he seeks to esca ...

1028 WILLIAMJAMES in stock. It must both lean on old truth and grasp new fact; and its success (as I said a moment ago) in doing ...

PRAGMATISM 1029 sort of coarse lame second-rate makeshift article of truth. Such truths are not real truth. Such tests are merel ...

1030 WILLIAMJAMES what they may, the Absolute will father them. Like the sick lion in Esop’s fable, all footprints lead into his ...

PRAGMATISM 1031 speak incredulously of the Absolute, therefore, and disregards your criticisms because they deal with aspects of ...

1032 WILLIAMJAMES it were, and merely in my own private person,—it clashes with other truths of mine whose benefits I hate to gi ...