Absolute reality here bears the same relation
to sensation as sensation bears to conception
or imagination. Both are provisional or final
termini, sensation being only the terminus
at which the practical man habitually stops,
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while the philosopher projects a 'beyond' in
the shape of more absolute reality. These
termini, for the practical and the philosophical
stages of thought respectively, are self-
supporting. They are not 'true' of anything
lese, they simply _are_, are _real_. They 'lean
on nothing,' as my italicized formula said.
Rather does the whole fabric of experience
lean on them, just as the whole fabric of the
solar system, including many relative positions,
leans, for its absolute position in space,
on any one of its constituent stars. Here,
again, one gets a new _Identitatsphilosophie_ in
pluralistic form.(1)
IV
If I have succeeded in making this at all
clear (though I fear that brevity and abstractness
between them may have made me fail),
the reader will see that the 'truth' of our mental
operations must always ben an intra-experiential
affair. A conception is reckoned true by
common sense when it can be made to lead to a
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