Real

Keyword: Real


Dictionary Entry | Posted 09/03/2013
Quote from "A Neglected Argument for the Reality of God"

“Real” is a word invented in the thirteenth century to signify having Properties, i.e. characters sufficing to identify their subject, and possessing these whether...

Dictionary Entry | Posted 09/03/2013
Quote from "What Pragmatism Is"

As to reality, one finds it defined in various ways; but if that principle of terminological ethics that was proposed be accepted, the equivocal language will soon disappear. For realis...

Dictionary Entry | Posted 09/03/2013
Quote from "Truth and Falsity and Error"

Truth is a character which attaches to an abstract proposition, such as a person might utter. [—] But whether or not there would be perhaps any reality is a question for the metaphysician...

Dictionary Entry | Posted 09/03/2013
Quote from "Truth and Falsity and Error"

These characters equally apply to pure mathematics. [—] The pure mathematician deals exclusively with hypotheses. Whether or not there is any corresponding real thing, he does not care. His...

Dictionary Entry | Posted 09/03/2013
Quote from "Letters to Georg Cantor"

By a true proposition (if there be any such thing) I mean a proposition which at some time, past or future, emerges into thought, and has the following three characters:

1st, no...

Dictionary Entry | Posted 07/02/2013
Quote from "How to Make Our Ideas Clear"

Let us now approach the subject of logic, and consider a conception which particularly concerns it, that of reality. Taking clearness in the sense of familiarity, no idea could be clearer...

Dictionary Entry | Posted 07/02/2013
Quote from "Fraser's The Works of George Berkeley"

… Objects are divided into figments, dreams, etc., on the one hand, and realities on the other. The former are those which exist only inasmuch as you or I or some man imagines them; the latter are...

Dictionary Entry | Posted 07/02/2013
Quote from "Some Consequences of Four Incapacities"

… And what do we mean by the real? It is a conception which we must first have had when we discovered that there was an unreal, an illusion; that is, when we first corrected ourselves. Now the...

Dictionary Entry | Posted 06/02/2013
Quote from "Reflexions upon Reasoning"

By “reality” is to be understood that part or ingredient of the being of anything which does not depend upon that thing’s actually being represented.

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