„A priori, we can imagine a universe of withness but no nextness; or one of nextness but no likeness, or of likeness with no activity, or of activity with no purpose, or of purpose with no ego. These would be universes, each with its own grade of unity. The universe of human experience is, by one or another of its parts, of each and all these grades. Whether or not it possibly enjoys some still more absolute grade of union does not appear upon the surface.“ (p. 40) #James #TheUniverseOfHumanExperience
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James: Sensation
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„When we try to introspect the sensation of blue, all we can see is the blue; the other element is as if it were diaphanous.“ (p. 9) #James #sensation
James: Pure Experience
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„The instant field of the present is at all times what I call the ‚pure‘ experience. It is only virtually or potentially either object or subject as yet. For the time being, it is plain, unqualified“. (p. 31) #James #PureExperience
James: Empiricism
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„To be radical, an empiricism must neither admit into its constructions any element that is not directly experienced, nor exclude from them any element that is directly experienced. For such a philosophy, the relations that connect experiences must themselves be experienced relations, and any kind of relation experienced must be accounted as ‚real‘ as anything else in the system.“ (p. 37) #James #empiricism
James: Primary Qualities
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„Even the primary qualities are undergoing the same fate. Hardness and softness are effects on us of atomic interactions, and the atoms themselves are neither hard nor soft, nor solid nor liquid. Size and shape are deemed subjective by Kantians; time itself is subjective according to many philosophers; and even the activity and causal efficacy which lingered in physics long after secondary qualities were banished are now treated as illusory projections outwards of phenomena of our own consciousness.“ (p. 124) #James #PrimaryQualities