Philosophic Classics From Plato to Derrida

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

612 GOTTFRIEDLEIBNIZ dreamless sleep. In this state the soul is not noticeably different from a simple monad. However, since thi ...

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

THEMONADOLOGY 613 Our reasoning is founded on two great principles: The first is the principle of contradiction, by virtue of w ...

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

614 GOTTFRIEDLEIBNIZ they depend, and without him there would not be anything real in the possibles; that is, without him there ...

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

THEMONADOLOGY 615 Now, since in the divine ideas there is an infinity of possible universes of which only one can exist, the ch ...

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

616 GOTTFRIEDLEIBNIZ Thus, every created monad represents the whole universe; nevertheless, it represents more distinctly the b ...

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

THEMONADOLOGY 617 This also proves that, strictly speaking, there never is either complete genera- tion or perfect death, which ...

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

618 GOTTFRIEDLEIBNIZ Among other differences existing between ordinary souls and spirits, some of which I have already pointed ...

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 ...

619 George Berkeley was born near Kilkenny, Ireland, and, although an Anglican of English descent, he emphatically considered hi ...

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 ...

620 GEORGEBERKELEY where another son was beginning his studies. On January 14, 1753, Berkeley died suddenly; he was buried at Ch ...

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

INTRODUCTION 621 be common sense, his readers drew different conclusions. One prominent physician of his day claimed Berkeley wa ...