By what criterion… can we distinguish among the numberless effects, that are also causes, and among the causes that may, for aught we can know, be also effects, – how can we distinguish which are the means and which are the ends?
Category Archive: Chauncey Wright
The accidental causes of science are only accidents relatively to the intelligence of a man.
The questions of philosophy proper are human desires and fears and aspirations – human emotions – taking an intellectual form.
If they are, then the only ultimate truths are the particulars of concrete experience, and no postulate or general assumption is inherent in science until its proceedings become systematic, or the truths already reached give direction to further research.