 My thesis is that if we start with the supposition that there is only one primal stuff or material in the world, a stuff of which everything is composed, and if we call that stuff 'pure experience...  The Monist - 164. lappuselaboja - 1914Pilnskats - Par šo grāmatu
 | Bertrand Russell - 1927 - 340 lapas
...exist?" In this article, reprinted in the volume called Essays in Radical Empiricism, he set out the view that "there is only one primal stuff or material in the world", and that the word "consciousness" stands for a function, not an entity. He holds that there are "thoughts",... | |
 | Frederick Charles Copleston - 1966 - 594 lapas
...in which we make them. In this sense pure experience is 'monistic'. And James can speak of it as the 'one primal stuff or material in the world, a stuff of which everything is composed'.1 This is the doctrine of 'neutral monism', which James associates with radical empiricism.... | |
 | E. P. Papanoutsos - 1968 - 360 lapas
...together with series A of similar elements, and sometimes with series B. "My thesis," writes James, "is that if we start with the supposition that there...one primal stuff or material in the world, a stuff out of which everything is composed, and if we call that stuff pure experience, then knowing can easily... | |
 | Bertrand Russell - 1993 - 320 lapas
...me then immediately explain that I mean only to deny that the word stands for an entity, but to 20 insist most emphatically that it does stand for a...easily be explained as a particular sort of relation 30 towards one another into which portions of pure experience may enter. The relation itself is a part... | |
 | Nancy Frankenberry - 1987 - 246 lapas
...cannot be described appropriately either in objective language or in subjective language. Beginning with the supposition that "there is only one primal...world, a stuff of which everything is composed," and which he called pure experience, James concluded that "then knowing can easily be explained as a particular... | |
 | Bertrand Russell - 1988 - 408 lapas
...and for the performance of which this quality of being is involved. That function is knowing' [pages 2-4]. 'My thesis is that if we start with the supposition...composed, and if we call that stuff "pure experience", * This article was first published in 1904. then knowing can easily be explained as a particular sort... | |
 | Russell B. Goodman - 1990 - 182 lapas
..."experience" too the worldly objects that fall out (or are carved out)157 from the originary pure experience: "If we start with the supposition that there is only...experience,' then knowing can easily be explained as a ... relation . . . into which portions of pure experience may enter."158 In such relations one "experience... | |
 | Edward Craig - 1998 - 890 lapas
...sense beliefs do not, however, survive philosophical criticism unaltered. James holds that there is 'one primal stuff or material in the world, a stuff of which everything is composed' but 'there is no general stuff of which experience at large is made' (1912: 4, 14). This is not simply... | |
 | David C. Lamberth - 1999 - 274 lapas
..."external" problem of relating thoughts and things.40 Thus he offers his thesis of pure experience: if we start with the supposition that there is only...knowing can easily be explained as a particular sort 89 See the discussion in chapter 4 of the compounding of consciousness for more detail on these issues.... | |
 | Richard M. Gale - 1999 - 388 lapas
...is one and the same point that is a member of two intersecting lines. II. This thesis, which holds "that there is only one primal stuff or material in...the world, a stuff of which everything is composed," has created great consternation in interpreters, since James seems to be back with the pre-Socratics,... | |
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