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All nature abounds in proofs of other influences than merely mechanical action, even in the physical world.
Pragmatism and Pragmaticism (1903)
Understand me well. My appeal is to observation — observation that each of you must make for himself.
Pragmatism and Pragmaticism (1903)
The first category, then, is Quality of Feeling, or whatever is such as it is positively and regardless of aught else.
Pragmatism and Pragmaticism (1903)
Philosophy, as I understand the word, is a positive theoretical science, and a science in an early stage of development.
Pragmatism and Pragmaticism (1903)
The next simplest feature that is common to all that comes before the mind, and consequently, the second category, is the element of Struggle.
Pragmatism and Pragmaticism (1903)
When anything is present to the mind, what is the very first and simplest character to be noted in it, in every case, no matter how little elevated the object may be? Certainly, it is its presentness.
Pragmatism and Pragmaticism (1903)
But you will mark the limitation of my approval of Ockham's razor. It is a sound maxim of scientific procedure. If the question be what one ought to believe, the logic of the situation must take other factors into account.
Pragmatism and Pragmaticism (1903)
The quality of feeling is the true psychical representative of the first category of the immediate as it is in its immediacy, of the present in its direct positive presentness. Qualities of feeling show myriad-fold variety, far beyond what the psychologists admit.
Pragmatism and Pragmaticism (1903)
In all the works on pedagogy that ever I read — and they have been many, big, and heavy — I don't remember that any one has advocated a system of teaching by practical jokes, mostly cruel. That, however, describes the method of our great teacher, Experience. She says
Pragmatism and Pragmaticism (1903)