„Science and critical philosophy thus burst the bounds of common sense. With science NAIF realism ceases: ‚Secondary‘ qualities become unreal; primary ones alone remain. With critical philosophy, havoc is made of everything. The common-sense categories one and all cease to represent anything in the way of BEING; they are but sublime tricks of human thought, our ways of escaping bewilderment in the midst of sensation’s irremediable flow.“ (p. 150) #James #CommonSense #Science #CriticalPhilosophy
Archiv der Kategorie: Pragmatismus
Grathoff: Realität
Zitat
„Wenn – und das ist in gewissen Gesellschaften der Fall – Menschen, Tiere, Dämonen etc., auch die Toten, eine Gemeinschaft bilden, dann gehört das alles zur Welt des alltäglichen Daseins oder der der Realität.“ (p. 100) #Grathoff #Realität
James: The Pragmatic Method
Zitat
„The pragmatic method is primarily a method of settling metaphysical disputes that otherwise might be interminable.“ (p. 41) #James #PragmaticMethod
James: The Pragmatic Method
Zitat
„The pragmatic method in such cases is to try to interpret each notion by tracing its respective practical consequences. What difference would it practically make to anyone if this notion rather than that notion were true?“ (p. 41) #James #PragmaticMethod
James: Pragmatism
Zitat
„Pragmatism represents a perfectly familiar attitude in philosophy, the empiricist attitude, but it represents it, as it seems to me, both in a more radical and in a less objectionable form than it has ever yet assumed. A pragmatist turns his back resolutely and once for all upon a lot of inveterate habits dear to professional philosophers.“ (p. 46) #James #Pragmatism