 Objective evidence and certitude are doubtless very fine ideals to play with, but where on this moonlit and dream-visited planet are they found? I am, therefore, myself a complete empiricist so far as my theory of human knowledge goes. I live, to be sure,...  The Likelihood Principle - Page 174by James O. Berger, Robert L. Wolpert - 1988 - 208 pagesFull view - About this book
 | William James - Belief and doubt - 1896 - 364 pages
...doubtless very fine ideals to / play with, but where on this moonlit and dreamvisited planet are they found? I am; therefore, myself a complete empiricist...! opinions grow more true; but to hold any one of i them — I absolutely do not care which — as if it never 'could be reinterpretable or corrigible,... | |
 | William James - Belief and doubt - 1896 - 358 pages
...doubtless very fine ideals to play with, but where on this moonlit and dreamvisited planet are they found? I am, therefore, myself a complete empiricist so far as my theory of human knowledge goes. I li/e, to be sure, by the practical faith that we must go on experiencing and thinking over our experience,... | |
 | William James - Belief and doubt - 1896 - 364 pages
...doubtless very fine ideals to play wTtfi, but where on this moonlit and dreamvisited planet are they found? I am, therefore, myself a complete empiricist so far as my theoiy of human knowledge goes. I live, to be sure, by the practical faith that we must go on experiencing... | |
 | Margaret Mary MacSwiney - 1915 - 190 pages
...doubtless very fine ideals to play with, but where on this moonlit and dream-visited planet are they found? I am, therefore, myself a complete empiricist so far as my theory of human knowledge goes. . . . There is but one indefectibly certain truth, and that is the truth that pyrrhonistic scepticism... | |
 | Charles Van Doren, Charles Lincoln Van Doren, Robert McHenry - History - 1971 - 1530 pages
...doubtless very fine ideals to play with, but where on this moonlit and dreamvisited planet are they found? I am, therefore, myself a complete empiricist so far as my theory of human knowledge goes. / live, to be sure, by the practical faith that we must go on experiencing and thinking over our experience,... | |
 | Russell B. Goodman - Literary Criticism - 1990 - 182 pages
...such traditional and limited criteria of truth as reason or sensation, James simply and openly says that "we must go on experiencing and thinking over...experience, for only thus can our opinions grow more true."122 He rejects dogmatism, not sentiment; "experiencing and thinking" counter the former but will... | |
 | Paul Jerome Croce - Social Science - 1995 - 394 pages
...ideals to play with, but where on this moonlit and dream-visited planet are they to be found? . . . We must go on experiencing and thinking over our experience, for only thus can our opinions grow more true. WILLIAM JAMES, 1895 What place can uncertainty have in a cultural and intellectual study of mid-nineteenth-century... | |
 | Stuart C. Brown - Philosophy - 2001 - 212 pages
...douhtless very fine ideals to play with, hut where on this moonlit and dream-visited planet are they found? I am, therefore, myself a complete empiricist...far as my theory of human knowledge goes. I live, to he sure, hy the practical faith that we must go on experiencing and thinking over our experience, for... | |
 | Stuart C. Brown - Philosophy - 2001 - 214 pages
...play with, hut where on this moonlit and dream-visited planet are thev found? I am, therefore, mvself a complete empiricist so far as my theory of human knowledge goes. I live, to he sure, hy the practical faith that we must go on experiencing and thinking over our experience, for... | |
 | Peter Sharpe - Language Arts & Disciplines - 2004 - 400 pages
...and their fictive worlds detonate in a tropological fission reaction, or we can, as James said, "live by the practical faith that we must go on experiencing and thinking over our experience."30 The view ahead from Emerson and James to the deconstructive turn is a view of retrenchment... | |
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