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James, William

"Essays In Radical Empiricism"

Pending that
actuality of union, in the virtuality of which
the 'truth,' even now, of the postulation consists,
the beyond and its knower are entities
split off from each other. The world is in so far
forth a pluralism of which the unity is not fully
experienced as yet. But, as fast as verifications
come, trains of experience, once separate, run
into one another; and that is why I said, earlier
---
1 Our minds and these ejective realities would still have space (or
pseudo-space, as I believe Professor Strong calls the medium of
interaction between 'things-in-themselves') in common. These would
exist _where_, and begin to act _where_, we locate the molecules, etc.,
and _where_ we perceive the sensible phenomena explained thereby.
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in my article, that the unity of the world is on
the whole undergoing increase. The universe
continually grows in quantity by new experiences
that graft themselves upon the older
mass; but these very new experiences often
help the mass to a more consolidated form.
These are the main features of a philosophy
of pure experience. It has innumerable other
aspects and arouses innumerable questions,
but the points I have touched on seem enough
to make an entering wedge.


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