Language fails not because thought fails, but because no verbal symbols can do justice to the fullness and richness of thought. If... we are to continue talking about "data" in any other sense than as reflective distinctions, the original datum is always such a qualitative whole.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
You ask: What is it that philosophers have called qualitative states? I answer, only half in jest: As Louis Armstrong is said to h...ave said when asked what jazz is, 'If you got to ask, you ain't never gonna get to know.'LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Shame is closely related to guilt, but there is a key qualitative difference. No audience is needed for feelings of guilt, no one ...else need know, for the guilty person is his own judge. Not so for shame. The humiliation of shame requires disapproval or ridicule by others. If no one ever learns of a misdeed there will be no shame, but there still might be guilt. Of course, there may be both. The distinction between shame and guilt is very important, since these two emotions may tear a person in opposite directions. The wish to relieve guilt may motivate a confession, but the wish to avoid the humiliation of shame may prevent it.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Any necessary truth, whether a priori or a posteriori, could not have turned out otherwise. In the case of some necessary a poster...iori truths, however, we can say that under appropriate qualitatively identical evidential situations, an appropriate corresponding qualitative statement might have been false.... The inaccurate statement that Hesperus might have turned out not to be Phosphorus should be replaced by the true contingency ... two distinct bodies might have occupied, in the morning and evening, respectively, the very positions actually occupied by Hesperus- Phosphorus-Venus.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Work is a responsibility most adults assume, a burden at times, a complication, but also a challenge that, like children, requires... enormous energy and that holds the potential for qualitative, as well as quantitative, rewards. Isn't this the only constructive perspective for women who have no choice but to work? And isn't it a more healthy attitude for women writhing with guilt because they choose to compound the challenges of motherhood with work they enjoy?LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
By "object" is meant some element in the complex whole that is defined in abstraction from the whole of which it is a distinction.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
It is commonplace that a problem stated is well on its way to solution, for statement of the nature of a problem signifies that th...e underlying quality is being transformed into determinate distinctions of terms and relations or has become an object of articulate thought.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The only thing that is unqualifiedly given is the total pervasive quality; and the objection to calling it "given" is that the wor...d suggests something to which it is given, mind or thought or consciousness or whatever, as well possibly as something that gives.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
It is merely a linguistic peculiarity, not a logical fact, that we say "that is red" instead of "that reddens," either in the sens...e of growing, becoming, red, or in the sense of making something else red.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Philosophy is written in this grand book--I mean the universe-- which stands continually open to our gaze, but it cannot be u...nderstood unless one first learns to comprehend the language and interpret the characters in which it is written. It is written in the language of mathematics, and its characters are triangles, circles, and other geometrical figures, without which it is humanly impossible to understand a single word of it.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »