To be radical, an empiricism must neither admit into its constructions any element that is not directly experienced, nor exclude f...rom them any element that is directly experienced.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Prima facie, if you should liken the universe of absolute idealism to an aquarium, a crystal globe in which goldfish are swimming,... you would have to compare the empiricist universe to something more like one of those dried human heads with which the Byaks of Borneo deck their lodges. The skull forms a solid nucleus; but innumerable feathers, leaves, strings, beads, and loose appendices of every description float and dangle from it, and, save that they terminate in it, seem to have nothing to do with one another.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The only function that one experience can perform is to lead into another experience; and the only fulfillment we can speak of is ...the reaching of a certain experienced end. When one experience leads to (or can lead to) the same end as another, they agree in function.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The instant field of the present is at all times what I call the 'pure' experience. It is only virtually or potentially either obj...ect or subject as yet.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Mental fire is what won't burn real sticks; mental water is what won't necessarily (though of course it may) put out even a mental... fire.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
'Pure experience' is the name I gave to the immediate flux of life which furnishes the material to our later reflection with its c...onceptual categories.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »