In the case of our main stock of well-worn predicates, I submit that the judgment of projectibility has derived from the habitual ...projection, rather than the habitual projection from the judgment of projectibility. The reason why only the right predicates happen so luckily to have become well entrenched is just that the well entrenched predicates have thereby become the right ones.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The problem of induction is not a problem of demonstration but a problem of defining the difference between valid and invalid ...>predictions.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
You may decry some of these scruples and protest that there are more things in heaven and earth than are dreamt of in my philosoph...y. I am concerned, rather, that there should not be more things dreamt of in my philosophy than there are in heaven or earth.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
If we are ready to tolerate everything as understood, there is nothing left to explain; while if we sourly refuse to take anything..., even tentatively, as clear, no explanation can be given. What intrigues us as a problem, and what will satisfy us as a solution, will depend upon the line we draw between what is already clear and what needs to be clarified.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Rules and particular inferences alike are justified by being brought into agreement with each other. A rule is amended if it yield...s an inference we are unwilling to accept; an inference is rejected if it violates a rule we are unwilling to amend. The process of justification is the delicate one of making mutual adjustments between rules and accepted inferences; and in the agreement achieved lies the only justification needed for either.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Truth cannot be defined or tested by agreement with 'the world'; for not only do truths differ for different worlds but the nature... of agreement between a world apart from it is notoriously nebulous. Rather--speaking loosely and without trying to answer either Pilate's question or Tarski's--a version is to be taken to be true when it offends no unyielding beliefs and none of its own precepts.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Twentieth-century art may start with nothing, but it flourishes by virtue of its belief in itself, in the possibility of control o...ver what seems essentially uncontrollable, in the coherence of the inchoate, and in its ability to create its own values.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The knowledge of God is the cause of things. For the knowledge of God is to all creatures what the knowledge of the artificer is t...o things made by his art.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
To say the word Romanticism is to say modern art--that is, intimacy, spirituality, color, aspiration towards the infinite, express...ed by every means available to the arts.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »