| James Henry Snowden - God - 1920 - 168 pages
...together as a heap. " Pluralism means only that the sundry parts of reality may be externally related. Everything you can think of, however vast or inclusive,...with ' one another in many ways, but nothing includes anything, or dominates over everything. The word ' and ' trails along after every sentence. . . . The... | |
| Ralph Barton Perry - Philosophy - 1925 - 418 pages
...are never found except in the company of other relations. "Everything you can think of," says James, "however vast or inclusive, has on the pluralistic...everything. The word 'and' trails along after every sentence."2 In other words, internal definitive relationships are discriminated from casual relationships.... | |
| Jean André Wahl, Fred Rothwell - Philosophy, Modern - 1925 - 354 pages
...William James, " pluralism . . . means only that the sundry parts of reality may be externally related. Everything you can think of, however vast or inclusive, has on the pluralist view a genuinely ' external ' environment of some sort. Things are ' with ' one another in... | |
| William Yandell Elliott - Pragmatism - 1928 - 568 pages
...thinking it politically. It can not be crammed into concepts. "Everything you can think of," said James, "however vast or inclusive, has on the pluralistic...ways, but nothing includes everything or dominates everything. The word 'and' trails along after every sentence, something always escapes. The pluralistic... | |
| William Yandell Elliott - Pragmatism - 1928 - 568 pages
...or amount. Things are 'with' one another in many ways, but nothing includes everything or dominates everything. The word 'and' trails along after every sentence, something always escapes. The pluralistic world thus is more like a federal republic than an empire or a kingdom. However much... | |
| Stephen David Ross - Philosophy - 1981 - 164 pages
...beings, religion will take plural forms. James's formulation of pluralism is suggestive though limited: Things are 'with' one another in many ways, but nothing...trails along after every sentence. Something always escapes.'Ever not quite' has to be said of the best attempts made anywhere in the universe at attaining... | |
| William James - Literary Collections - 1988 - 1410 pages
...the doctrine that it is many means only that the sundry parts of reality may be externally related. Everything you can think of, however vast or inclusive,...always escapes. 'Ever not quite' has to be said of the best attempts made anywhere in the universe at attaining all-inclusiveness. The pluralistic world is... | |
| Stephen David Ross - Philosophy - 1989 - 358 pages
...formulations of inexhaustibility are to be found in the writings of James and Dewey early in the century. Everything you can think of, however vast or inclusive,...always escapes. "Ever not quite" has to be said of the best attempts anywhere in the universe at attaining all-inclusiveness.7 . . . the chief characteristic... | |
| Russell B. Goodman - Literary Criticism - 1990 - 182 pages
...that (the universe] is many means only that the sundry parts of reality may be externally related. Everything you can think of, however vast or inclusive,...trails along after every sentence. Something always escapes.""*8 Even God is an "other," a part of the universe like ourselves.189 Pluralism allows room... | |
| Jerome Arthur Stone - Religion - 1992 - 282 pages
...conceived pluralistically, everything real will have an environment and exist in time, including God. Everything you can think of, however vast, or inclusive,...includes everything, or dominates over everything. 21 Having an environment, being in time, and working out a history just like ourselves, he escapes... | |
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