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>From: onstott@a.cs.okstate.edu (ONSTOTT CHARLES OR)
Subject: Re: MUST Philosopy be a Waste of Time?
References: <1992Feb4.213314.6821@psych.toronto.edu> <1992Feb9.041820.24110@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu> <1992Feb9.205758.15155@psych.toronto.edu>
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Date: Mon, 10 Feb 92 21:37:09 GMT

In article <1992Feb9.205758.15155@psych.toronto.edu> michael@psych.toronto.edu (Michael Gemar) writes:
>>In article <DIRISH.92Feb3142812@jeeves.math.utah.edu> dirish@math.utah.edu (Dudley Irish) writes:
>>
>>	Philosophy bakes no bread.
>
>"Philosophy is at once the most sublime and the most trivial of human pursuits.
>It works in the minutest crannies and it opens out the widest vistas.  It
>'bakes no bread,' as has been said, but it can inspire our souls with courage;
>and repugnant as its manners, its doubting and challenging, its quibbling and
>dialectics, often are to common people, no one of us can get along without
>the far-flashing beams of light it sends over the world's perspectives.  These
>illuminations at least, and the contrast-effects of darkness and mystery that
>accompany them, give to what it says an interest that is much more than
>professional."
>
>William James, "Pragmatism", 1907
>
> 
>
>- michael

William James; gotta love him!  Thanks for sharing that one.

BCnya,
  Charles O. Onstott, III

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"The most abstract system of philosophy is, in its method and purpose, 
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