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Monday, December 7, 2009

"Nature and Mind " by Frederick James E.Woodbridge,1937


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Pragmatism is important because of his emphasis on contexts and operations ;
the pragmatic method is useful for the clarification of ideas.
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Despite pragmatism's usefulness as a method of clarification,
it errs in rejecting objects antecedent to knowledge to which an idea must conform if it is to be true.
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The alternative to a theory of perception which makes ideas the objects of perception is an operational realism,a theory which rejects sensations as myths and which understands perception as a sense operation directed at objects.
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A cooperative working of naturalism and humanism,
of science and art,
in the natural outcome of a theory in which the antithesis between science and metaphysics is regarded as unfortunate.
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