William James. Pragmatism: A New Name for Some Old Ways of Thinking (Kindle Locations 1622-1623).
The 'sentimentalist fallacy' is to shed tears over abstract justice and generosity, beauty, etc., and never to know these qualities when you meet them in the street, because there the circumstances make them vulgar.
William James. Pragmatism: A New Name for Some Old Ways of Thinking (Kindle Locations 1622-1623).
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Truth is the thing that produces the sense data by which it is comprehended. Only that thing, that source is true.
The sense data proceeds from truth but is not truth in itself. Descriptions of the thing, or descriptions of the sense data, whether verbal or mathematical, are not true. They are approximations or models of the truth useful in communicating but are at most mere analogies. An analogy being a familiar thing set along side an unfamiliar thing. The unfamiliar thing being described as being in some ways like, and in other ways unlike, the familiar object. |
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