I, for my part, cannot escape the consideration, forced upon me at every turn, that the knower is not simply a mirror floating with no foot-hold anywhere, and passively reflecting an order that he comes upon and finds simply existing. The knower is an... The Quarterly Review - Page 40edited by - 1921Full view - About this book
| WM. James - 1878 - 460 pages
...it works best? I, for my part, cannot escape the consideration, forced upon me at every turn, that the knower is not simply a mirror floating with no...one side, whilst on the other he registers the truth which he helps to create. Mental interests, hypotheses, postulates, so far as they are bases for human... | |
| Emmanuel Leroux - 1923 - 442 pages
...pragmatisme : c'est la définition qu'il a donnée de la connaissance. (1) Citons au moins cette formule : « The Knower is an actor and co-efficient of the truth...one side, whilst on the other he registers the truth which he helps to create. Mental interests.... help to make the truth which they declare ». (p. 17).... | |
| Emmanuel Leroux - 1923 - 350 pages
...: c'est la définition qu'il a donnée de la. connaissance. (1) Citons au moins cette formule : « The Knower is an actor and co-efficient of the truth...one side, whilst on the other he registers the truth which he helps to create. Mental interests..., help to make the truth which they declare ». (p. 17).... | |
| Vivian Trow Thayer - 1924 - 728 pages
...attitude toward knowledge. We are learning that the knower "is not simply a mirror," as James put it, "floating with no foot-hold anywhere, and passively...order that he comes upon and finds simply existing," but an actor, helping to create the truth he registers. Even scientific concepts, laws of nature, etc.,... | |
| Edward Leroy Schaub - 1928 - 634 pages
..."I, for my part, cannot escape the consideration, forced upon me at every turn, that the knower i? not simply a mirror floating with no foothold anywhere,...one side, whilst on the other he registers the truth which he helps to create. Mental interests, hypotheses, postulates, so far as they are bases for human... | |
| Bruce Kuklick - 1979 - 712 pages
...conscious automata. 23 I, for my part, cannot escape the consideration, forced upon me at every turn, that the knower is not simply a mirror floating with no...one side, whilst on the other he registers the truth which he helps to create. Mental interests, hypotheses, postulates, so far as they are bases for human... | |
| Don S. Browning - 1980 - 288 pages
...conditions which lead to their verification. James writes, The knower is an actor, and co-efficient of truth on one side, whilst on the other he registers the truth which he helps to create. Mental interests, hypotheses, postulates, so far as they are bases for human... | |
| Horace Standish Thayer - 1981 - 646 pages
...Reviews, p. 54. I, for my part, cannot escape the consideration, forced upon me at every turn, that the knower is not simply a mirror floating with no...The knower is an actor, and coefficient of the truth which he helps to create. Mental interests, hypotheses, postulates, so far as they are bases for human... | |
| Charles S. Peirce - 1982 - 388 pages
...external objects. I, for my part, cannot escape the consideration, forced upon me at every turn, that the knower is not simply a mirror floating with no...one side, whilst on the other he registers the truth which he helps to create. Mental interests, hypotheses, postulates, so far as they are bases for human... | |
| Gerald Eugene Myers - 2001 - 666 pages
...observation and experience. To the contrary, James argued, "The knower is not simply a mirror . . . passively reflecting an order that he comes upon and finds simply existing. The knower is an actor. ... He registers the truth which he helps to create. Mental interests . . . help to make the truth... | |
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