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1908 Oct 29
Logic
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be able to examine their contention as soon as we shall
have made out clearly what we mean by knowledge, truth, and
reality. Meantime, I may mention that, in regard to the (?? prior)
of alternatives as to the (??meaning) or the (??) just stated just stated question just formulated
as to what is meant by pronouncing motion to be self-contradictory, Herbart and Hegel are quite at odds. Herbart practically
holds to the first mentioned alternative; only
he persuades himself that his own idea of motion, together
with those of all change and of all variety, is the only one
possible,--sot that, though he is by far the more accurate reasoner
of the two, he concludes that all our instinctive judgments
about the world are false, which, I think you will see, is to
cut off the very branch of reason upon which he is himself