H. Bradley: _Appearance_and_Reality_, second edition, pp.
152-153, 23, 118, 104, 108-109, 570.]
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rationalism and naturalism, or (as I will now
call it) pragmatism, walk thenceforward upon
opposite paths. For the one, those intellectual
products are most truth which, turning their
face towards the Absolute, come nearest to
symbolizing its ways of uniting the many and
the one. For the other, those are most true
which most successfully dip back into the
finite stream of feeling and grow most easily
confluent with some particular wave or wavelet.
Such confluence not only proves the intellectual
operation to have been true (as an
addition may 'prove' that a subtraction is
already rightly performed), but it constitutes,
according to pragmatism, all that we mean by
calling it true. Only in so far as they lead us,
successfully or unsuccessfully, back into sensible
experience again, are our abstracts and
universals true or false at all.(1)
III
In Section VI of [the last essay], I adopted
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1 Compare Professor MacLennan's admirable _Auseinandersetzung_
with Mr. Bradley, in _The_Journal_of_Philosophy,_Psychology_and_
_Scientific_Methods_, vol.
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