„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
Schlagwort-Archive: Common Sense
James: Common Sense
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„Common sense appears thus as a perfectly definite stage in our understanding of things, a stage that satisfies in an extraordinarily successful way the purposes for which we think.“ (p. 147) #James #CommonSense
Thoughts and Things
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„»Thoughts« and »things« are names for two sorts of object, which common sense will always find contrasted and will always practically oppose to each other.“ (p. 5) #WilliamJames #CommonSense #Empiricism