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consist in a relation between our experiences
and something archetypal or trans-experiential.
Should we ever reach absolutely terminal
experiences, experiences in which we all agreed,
which were superseded by no revised continuations,
these would not be _true_, they would be
_real_, they would simply _be_, and be indeed the
angles, corners, and linchpins of all reality, on
which the truth of everything else would be
stayed. Only such _other_ thins as led to these
by satisfactory conjunctions would be 'true.'
Satisfactory connection of some sort with such
termini is all that the word 'truth' means.
On the common-sense stage of thought sense-
presentations serve as such termini. our ideas
and concepts and scientific theories pass for
true only so far as they harmoniously lead back
to the world of sense.
I hope that many humanists will endorse
this attempt of mine to trace the more essential
features of that way of viewing things. I
feel almost certain that Messrs. Dewey and
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Schiller will do so. If the attackers will also
take some slight account of it, it may be that
discussion will be a little less wide of the mark
than it has hitherto been.
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