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" Pragmatism unstiffens all our theories, limbers them up and sets each one at work. Being nothing essentially new, it harmonizes with many ancient philosophic tendencies. It agrees with nominalism, for instance, in always appealing to particulars; with... "
Scientific Method: Its Philosophy and Its Practice - Page 41
by Frederic William Westaway - 1912 - 439 pages
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Pragmatism: A New Name for Some Old Ways of Thinking : Popular Lectures on ...

William James - 1907 - 336 pages
...We don't lie back upon them, we move forward, and, on occasion, make nature over again by their aid. Pragmatism unstiffens all our theories, limbers them...emphasizing practical aspects; with positivism in its disdain for verbal 53 solutions, useless questions and metaphysical abstractions. All these, you see,...
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Pragmatism, a New Name for Some Old Ways of Thinking: Popular Lectures on ...

William James - 1907 - 342 pages
...don't lie bark npnn them, WP m and, on occasion, make nature over again _by their aid./T>1"1gTnntlsTT1 unstiffens all our theories, limbers them up and sets...emphasizing practical aspects ; with positivism in its disdain for verbal _ _ solutions, useless questions and metaphysical I abstractions^ X* All these,...
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Pragmatism, a New Name for Some Old Ways of Thinking: Popular ..., Volume 10

William James - 1907 - 360 pages
...rest don't lie back upon them, we move forward, and, on occasion, make nature over again by their aid. Pragmatism unstiffens all our theories, limbers them...with utilitarianism in emphasizing practical aspects; t an- \ . We \ with positivism in its disdain for verbal solutions, useless questions and metaphysical...
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Pragmatism, a New Name for Some Old Ways of Thinking: Popular Lectures on ...

William James - 1907 - 336 pages
...J don't lie back upon them, we move forward, and, on occasion, make nature over again by their aid. Pragmatism unstiffens all our theories, limbers them...essentially new, it harmonizes with many ancient philosophic tenden- , cies. It agrees with nominalism for instance, !%';'•? - in always appealing to particulars;...
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Pragmatism, a New Name for Some Old Ways of Thinking: Popular Lectures on ...

William James - 1907 - 336 pages
...We don't lie back upon them, we move forward, and, on occasion, make nature over again by their aid. Pragmatism unstiffens all our theories, limbers them up and sets each one iSr._ . , — -i •••• r+. . -. at work. Being nothing essentially new, it harmonizes with many...
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Anti-pragmatism; an Examination Into the Respective ..., Volume 61; Volume 589

Albert Schinz - 1909 - 328 pages
...special results " (Pragmatism, p. 51) ; but neither does it by any means reject any of them. a priori: " It agrees with nominalism for instance, in always...emphasizing practical aspects; with positivism in its disdain for verbal solutions, useless questions, and metaphysical abstractions." (Ibid. Pp. S3' 54.)...
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The Smith College Monthly, Volume 16

1910 - 666 pages
...essentially new, it harmonizes with many philosophical tendencies which we may previously have acquired. " It agrees with nominalism, for instance, in always...emphasizing practical aspects ; with positivism in its disdain for verbal solutions, useless questions, and metaphysical abstractions. All these tendencies...
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American Thought from Puritanism to Pragmatism and Beyond

Woodbridge Riley - 1915 - 460 pages
...Thus science and metaphysics come together, for theories being instruments, not answers to enigmas, pragmatism unstiffens all our theories, limbers them up and sets each one at work. . . . Here is temperamental philosophy of the highest kind. James calls it democratic, but we should...
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American Thought: From Puritanism to Pragmatism

Woodbridge Riley - 1915 - 390 pages
...species is not invertebrate, it has an historic backbone. James says that it agrees with nominalism in appealing to particulars ; with utilitarianism in...emphasizing practical aspects ; with positivism in its disdain for metaphysical abstractions. In these confessed resemblances the author is but carrying out...
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Strife of Systems and Productive Duality: An Essay in Philosophy

Wilmon Henry Sheldon - 1918 - 560 pages
...narrowly utilitarian sense than the leaders of the movement would countenance. We read that pragmatism "agrees with nominalism, for instance, in always appealing...emphasizing practical aspects; with positivism in its disdain for ... metaphysical abstractions." (Pragmatism, pp. 53-54.) Now the views referred to have,...
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