A History of Western Philosophy

real contingency, then his condemnation of intellect, and finally his account of the relations of mind and matter. Of course a l ...

dogmas, but he was content that others should believe them, and himself appreciated what he regarded as the Christian myth. To J ...

or material," out of which everything in the world is composed. This stuff he calls "pure experience." Knowing, he says, is a pa ...

hardly be said to experience. Clearly I experience whatever I remember, but some things which I do not explicitly remember may h ...

not know, I am certainly not believing truly about his none; whereas, if I decide to believe that that is his name, there is a c ...

It is, I should say: "Give to any hypothesis which is worth your while to consider just that degree of credence which the eviden ...

In other words, "our obligation to seek truth is part of our general obligation to do what pays." In a chapter on pragmatism and ...

is true although in fact A does not exist. I have always found that the hypothesis of Santa Claus "works satisfactorily in the w ...

CHAPTER XXX John Dewey JOHN DEWEY, who was born in 1859, is generally admitted to be the leading living philosopher of America. ...

considered the most influential of all his writings. He has continued to write on education throughout his life, almost as much ...

which all reality is temporal, and process, though evolutionary, is not, as for Hegel, the unfolding of an eternal Idea. So far, ...

suitable if you had been at the bottom, but in fact was not suitable. This failure of adjustment constituted error, and one may ...

say: a belief is a state of an organism promoting behaviour such as a certain occurrence would promote if sensibly present; the ...

is legitimate can only be justified by a Hegelian distinction of appearance and reality: the appearance may be confused and frag ...

is rejected by Dr. Dewey. He does not divide beliefs into "true" and "false," but he still has two kinds of beliefs, which we wi ...

mon sense is due to his refusal to admit "facts" into his metaphysic, in the sense in which "facts" are stubborn and cannot be m ...

Dewey has an outlook which, where it is distinctive, is in harmony with the age of industrialism and collective enterprise. It i ...

where it led to anarchy and disaster. Its work was largely undone by the Reformation and the Counter-reformation. But modern tec ...

2, 4, 6, 8, 10, 12,.... There is one entry in the lower row for every one in the top row; therefore the number of terms in the t ...

there can be no doubt that the utility of philosophical syntax in relation to traditional problems is very great. I will illustr ...