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king james
Title: king james
Category: Literature / English
Details: Words: 306 | Pages: 1.3 (approximately 235 words/page)
king james
Chapter Two of William James's Pragmatism called "What Pragmatism Means" begins with the famous metaphysical question: Does the man go round the squirrel or not? What he means by this is if a man walks around a tree in a full circle, and a squirrel is one of the tree branches, how come it never occurs to the man to say that he not only walked around the tree, but the squirrel as well?
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…showed last 75 words of 306 total…situated on the same plain that you are, but not situated on the same plain that you are. If the squirrel is on the branches of a tree it is clearly not on the same plain as you are, and therefor you could not have possibly walked on it. I wonder if this opinion of mine means that I am being a rationalist? And if I am wondering, perhaps then I am being a philosopher?
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