The Monist, Vol. 19 (Classic Reprint)

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Excerpt from The Monist, Vol. 19 This tolerance of the pragmatic scientist, then, allows two provisional formulations of ultimate truth, the one excluding the other as its contrary, and thus doing away with the logician's law of identity. This cannot be Mr. James's meaning. It smacks too much of Renan's phan tasmagoria of the Absolute who makes us live by illusions. The Varieties of Religious Experience suggest rather that there may be several relative truths of equal validity (though exclusive of each other) because there are several types of mental constitution among men varying according to race, environment and temperament. I would like to call them emotional-volitional truths in distinction from the intellectual truths of physics or chemistry, and I would define them as teleological or spiritual truths in distinction from the mechancal truths which fit the outer aspect of our experience. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully, any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.