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  The Anæsthetic Revelation is the Initiation of Man into the Immemorial Mystery of the Open Secret of Being


id: 38091
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  The Meaning of the Word Truth--The Existence of Julius Cæsar--The Absolute and the Strenuous Life--Hébert on Pragmatism--Abstractionism


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id: 16287
title: Talks To Teachers On Psychology; And To Students On Some Of Life''s Ideals
author: James, William
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  mental life of their pupil as the sort of active unity which he himself The child''s native interests,--How uninteresting things acquire an Now the _immediate_ fact which psychology, the science of mind, has to state of things was what I had in mind when, a moment ago, I said there parrot-like in the schoolroom, rested on the truth that a thing merely Every teacher knows the advantage of having certain things performed by in adult life; for the acquired habits of our training have by that time from it that, in working associations into your pupils'' minds, you must mind without good desultory memory may know how to work out results and new thing in either our own mind or a pupil''s, our conscious effort No life like poverty could so get one to the heart of things and make men know their meaning, could so let us feel life and the world


id: 20768
title: Memories and Studies
author: James, William
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  save those that separate the things of Nature from those of human art. talked "shop" to every person, young or old, great or little, learned the truth of things is after all their living fulness, and some day, persons to things and to times and places. getting little, he had, I think, a certain consciousness of living in Old age changes men in different ways. We all say and think that we believe this sort of thing; but Davidson the dramatically probable human way, I think differently of the whole Stating the thing broadly, the human individual thus lives usually far things to keep account of, in a busy city man''s or woman''s life, seem This natural sort of feeling forms, I think, the innermost soul of impress a mind like General Lea''s as so much human blubber. such thing.'' But a live man''s answer might be in this way: What is the


id: 26659
title: The Will to Believe, and Other Essays in Popular Philosophy
author: James, William
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  moral life, just as common-sense conceives these things, may remain in things in human history; but when from now onward I use the word I mean persons the physical order of nature, taken simply as science knows it, nature, that men can live and die by the help of a sort of faith that with regard to the facts yet to come the case is far different. stultifying their sense for the living facts of human nature as not to worth are themselves mere matters of fact; that the words ''good'' and The word ''God'' has come to mean many things in the total nature of things in a way that carries practical consequences the mind has the power to impose on department Number Two. Our volitional nature must then, until the end of time, exert a explained by any abstract moral ''nature of things'' existing certain place, bring in a total condition of things more ideal than


id: 5117
title: The Meaning of Truth
author: James, William
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  relation called ''truth'' which may obtain between an idea (opinion, "Grant an idea or belief to be true," it says, "what concrete difference true ideas; that therefore is the meaning of truth, for it is all that supposed to be the truth-relation, which connects parts of reality in which ideas must have, in order to be true, means particular workings, the least, to transfer the word ''truth'' from the idea to the object''s truth-relation falls inside of the continuities of concrete experience, Pragmatically, virtual and actual truth mean the same thing: between idea and object which the word ''truth'' points to is left out of Truth is essentially a relation between two things, an idea, on the one our critics have any definite idea of a truth more objectively grounded The relation of the true idea to its object, call the belief true, I am told that the truth means the fact; when I


id: 5116
title: Pragmatism: A New Name for Some Old Ways of Thinking
author: James, William
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  In point of fact it is far less an account of this actual world than oddly-named thing pragmatism as a philosophy that can satisfy both kinds means the right kind of thing for the empiricist mind. sense, as meaning also a certain theory of TRUTH. old truth and grasp new fact; and its success (as I said a moment ago) no meaning in treating as ''not true'' a notion that was pragmatically so of fact we mean to cover the whole of it by our abstract term ''world'' or what it may mean to say ''the world is One.'' ABSOLUTE generic unity would results we actually know in is world have in point of fact been purposed ultra-monistic way of thinking means a great deal to many minds. By ''realities'' or ''objects'' here, we mean either things of common sense, Realities mean, then, either concrete facts, or abstract kinds of things


id: 621
title: The Varieties of Religious Experience: A Study in Human Nature
author: James, William
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  religion for human life, I think we ought to look for the answer among "God is more real to me than any thought or thing or person. conscious of hating God, or man, or right, or love, and I know the mere natural animal man without a sense of sin; sometimes it means a religious experience, the fact that man has a dual nature, and is "The great central fact in human life is the coming into a immanence of God and the Divinity of man''s true, inner self." power had come into my life; that, indeed, old things had passed sense, to use human standards to help us decide how far the religious life certain kind of thing for the first time in his life. things: "I simply mean the _Science of God_, or the truths we know God, meaning only what enters into the religious man''s


id: 11984
author: James, William
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  as an absolute mind that makes the partial facts by thinking them, a finite thing, to be an object for the absolute; and on the part of we use the word ''content'' here, we see that the absolute and the world The absolute and the world are one fact, I said, when materially world, that the philosophy of the absolute, so far as insight and supposed world of absolute reality is asserted both by Bradley and terms of the pluralistic vision of things far more naturally than in reason in things which makes certain combinations logically will have been in point of fact the sort of world which the absolute finite, the whole of reality (the absolute idea, as Hegel calls it) is insulators in logic as much as they like, but in life distinct things whole finite universe each real thing proves to be many differents when things are taken in their absolute reality.

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  A Pluralistic Universe Hibbert Lectures at Manchester College on the Present Situation in Philosophy


id: 32547
title: Essays in Radical Empiricism
author: James, William
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  ''Thoughts'' and ''things'' are names for two sorts of object, which common experience plays the part of a thing known, of an objective ''content.'' self-identical thing has so many relations to the rest of experience the real experiences get sifted from the mental ones, the things from non-perceptual experience of which the related terms themselves are experience and reality come to the same thing? a function'' in a world of pure experience can be conceived and defined an experience _for_ itself whose relation to other things we translate of the conjunctive relations between things, which experience seems to THE PLACE OF AFFECTIONAL FACTS IN A WORLD OF PURE EXPERIENCE[75] By the principle of pure experience, either the word ''activity'' must experience-series taking on the form of feelings of activity, just as need truth consist in a relation between our experiences and something to are ''Does Consciousness Exist?'' and ''A World of Pure Experience,''


id: 40307
title: The Letters of William James, Vol. 1
author: James, William
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  absorbed in work, went to the door and said "he was sorry Mrs. James was Agassiz says, as I begin to use my eyes a little every day, I feel like Williams); books read, good stories heard, girls fallen in love I got a letter from Mother the day after I wrote last week to Harry, entry made by his sister Alice, a few years later says: "In old days, He has had good reason, I know, to feel a little state, and shall write you a page or so a day till the letter is James sailed in June a good deal fagged by his year''s work, and got back WHITMAN,--How good a way to begin the day, with a letter good in each day as if life were to last a hundred years. He was twelve years James''s senior; a man whose best work was


id: 38091
title: The Letters of William James, Vol. 2
author: James, William
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  "In the course of the year he asked the men each to write some word of in the A.M. and read Kant''s Life all day, so as to be able to lecture on DEAR JIM,--Thanks for your noble-hearted letter, which makes me feel DEAR OLD HENRY,--You see I have worked my way across the Continent, and, begin the Gifford lectures, writing, say, a page a day, and having all DEAR OLD FRIEND,--Every day for a month past I have said to Alice, At this time James''s thirteen-year-old daughter was living with family long--by working I mean writing and reading philosophy." This estimate DEAR HENRY,--Thanks for your letter of the other day, etc. But I''m going to write one book worthy of you, dear Mrs. Agassiz, and of the Thayer expedition, if I am spared a couple of years thoughts and things, and the old-time New England rusticity and


