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" The pointing of our thought to the tigers is known simply and solely as a procession of mental associates and motor consequences that follow on the thought, and that would lead harmoniously, if followed out, into some ideal or real context, or even into... "
Critical Realism: A Study of the Nature and Conditions of Knowledge - Page 122
by Roy Wood Sellars - 1916 - 283 pages
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Psychological Review, Volume 2

James Mark Baldwin, James McKeen Cattell, Howard Crosby Warren, Herbert Sidney Langfeld, John Broadus Watson, Carroll Cornelius Pratt, Theodore Mead Newcomb - 1895 - 744 pages
...those of nearly all the epistemological writers whom I have ever read. The answer, made brief, is this: The pointing of our thought to the tigers is known...or even into the immediate presence, of the tigers. It is known as our rejection of a jaguar, if that beast were shown us as a tiger; as our assent to...
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De waarheidstheorie van William James: Een samenvatting en beoordeeling

Henri Johan Frans Willem Brugmans - 1913 - 216 pages
...instance, mean by our knowledge of the tigers in India, as we sit here? The answer, made brief, is this: The pointing of our thought to the tigers is known...or even into the immediate presence, of the tigers. It is known as our rejection of a jaguar, if that beast were shown us as a tiger; as our assent to...
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Collected Essays and Reviews

William James - 1920 - 540 pages
...those of nearly all the epistemological writers whom I have ever read. The answer, made brief, is this: The pointing of our thought to the tigers is known...or even into the immediate presence, of the tigers. It is known as our rejection of a jaguar, if that beast were shown us as a tiger ; as our assent to...
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Collected Essays and Reviews

William James - 1920 - 548 pages
...writers whom I have ever read. The answer, made biief, is this : The pointing of our thought to the 375 tigers is known simply and solely as a procession...or even into the immediate presence, of the tigers. It is known as our rejection of a jaguar, if that beast were shown us as a tiger; as our assent to...
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The Journal of Philosophy, Psychology and Scientific Methods, Volume 1

1904 - 1160 pages
...as we sit here. Vut now what do we mean by pointing, in such a case as this? The pointing . . . i" known simply and solely as a procession of mental...or even into the immediate presence of the tigers. ... In all this there is no self-transcendency in our mental images taken by themselves. They are one...
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Pragmatism, the Classic Writings: Charles Sanders Peirce, William James ...

Charles S. Peirce - 1982 - 388 pages
...those of nearly all the epistemological writers whom I have ever read. The answer, made brief, is this: The pointing of our thought to the tigers is known...or even into the immediate presence, of the tigers. It is known as our rejection of a jaguar, if that beast were shown us as a tiger; as our assent to...
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William James: His Life and Thought

Gerald Eugene Myers - 2001 - 666 pages
...which he said traversed the assumptions of common sense, scholasticism, and traditional epistemology. The pointing of our thought to the tigers is known...context, or even into the immediate presence of the tiger. It is known as our rejection of a jaguar, if that beast were shown us as a tiger. . . .It is...
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William James: Writings 1902-1910 (LOA #38): The Varieties of Religious ...

William James - 1988 - 1410 pages
...those of nearly all the epistemological writers whom I have ever read. The answer, made brief, is this: The pointing of our thought to the tigers is known...motor consequences that follow on the thought, and 'Extracts from a presidential address before the American Psychological Association, published in the...
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William James's Radical Reconstruction of Philosophy

Charlene Haddock Seigfried - 1990 - 454 pages
...could signify the intentional object. Only within an objective context can it become apparent which "procession of mental associates and motor consequences that follow on the thought" would lead harmoniously to the object [MT, 34]. There is no self-sustaining univocal relation which...
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The Cambridge Companion to William James

Ruth Anna Putnam - 1997 - 430 pages
...said to "agree with" or "refer to" can only be a matter of external relations, according to James. "The pointing of our thought to the tigers is known...or even into the immediate presence, of the tigers themselves" (EPh, 74). Philosophers who think that our ideas possess intrinsic intentionality, he insists,...
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