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Wittgenstein and Knowing: Where do I stand on this famous quote of Wittgenstein?

Allan Janik and Stephen Toulmin: WITTGENSTEIN’S VIENNA: "That of (more . . .)

William James: Pragmatisim: A New Name for Some Old Ways of Thinking: Pragmatism was published in 1907. It was revised from a series of public lectures that James gave at the Lowell (more . . .)

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My personal website is at ODBlog . I write about decision theory at my site On Deciding . . . Better . This site is a hyperlinked set of essays using Tinderbox.

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After a short defense of the idea of philosophy, the book begins with an outline of two philosophical world-views, which James calls "The Tender-Minded" and "The Tough-Minded". The correspond to what I've called the abstract and the material, respectively.

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