Whenever a man acts purposively, he acts under a belief in some experimental phenomenon. Consequently, the sum of the experimental... phenomena that a proposition implies makes up its entire bearing upon human conduct.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
One will meet, for example, the virtual assumption that what is relative to thought cannot be real. But why not, exactly? Red is r...elative to sight, but the fact that this or that is in that relation to vision that we call being red is not itself relative to sight; it is a real fact.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Generality is, indeed, an indispensable ingredient of reality; for mere individual existence or actuality without any regularity w...hatever is a nullity. Chaos is pure nothing.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Do you call it doubting to write down on a piece of paper that you doubt? If so, doubt has nothing to do with any serious business.... But do not make believe; if pedantry has not eaten all the reality out of you, recognize, as you must, that there is much that you do not doubt, in the least. Now that which you do not at all doubt, you must and do regard as infallible, absolute truth.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The reason that I call my doctrine logical atomism is because the atoms that I wish to arrive at as the sort of last residue in an...alysis are logical atoms and not physical atoms. Some of them will be what I call 'particulars'Msuch things as little patches of color or sounds, momentary things--and some of them will be predicates or relations and so on.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »