 Here, again, language works against our perception of the truth. We name our thoughts simply, each after its thing, as if each knew its own thing and nothing else. What each really knows is clearly the thing it is named for, with dimly perhaps a thousand...  Gertrude Stein, Writer and Thinker - Page 302by Claudia Franken - 2000 - 393 pagesLimited preview - About this book
 | William James - 1890 - 716 pages
...feeling so limited to the present as not to have an inkling of anything that went before. Here, again, language works against our perception of the truth....ought to be named after all of them, but it never is. Some of them are always things known a moment ago more clearly ; others are things to be known more... | |
 | William James - 1890 - 716 pages
...feeling so limited to the present as not to have an inkling of anything that went before. Here, again, language works against our perception of the truth....ought to be named after all of them, but it never is. Some of them are always things known a moment ago more clearly ; others are things to be known more... | |
 | William James - 1890 - 718 pages
..._-- -, - .... _ .- W-»— *- " .•!.• '. -° f, ,rje.__ Here, agam, language works agamst our pe of the truth. We name our thoughts simply, each after...ought to be named after all of them, but it never is. Some of them are always things known a moment ago more clearly; others are things to be known more... | |
 | 1907 - 1012 pages
...in the pulse of thought's object, not in thought's own pulse. "Language works against our preception of the truth. We name our thoughts simply, each after...thing, as if each knew its own thing and nothing else" (p. 241. Italics mine). Pulses are thus attributed to thought only by transferred epithet. But if we... | |
 | Charles S. Peirce - 1982 - 388 pages
...feeling so limited to the present as not to have an inkling of anything that went before. Here, again, language works against our perception of the truth....ought to be named after all of them, but it never is. Some of them are always things known a moment ago more clearly; others are things to be known more... | |
 | Gerald Eugene Myers - 2001 - 666 pages
...also a feeling of the silence as just gone. . . . Here, again, language works against our perceptions of the truth. We name our thoughts simply, each after...ought to be named after all of them, but it never is. Some of them are always things known a moment ago more clearly; others are things to be known more... | |
 | Ronald E. Martin - 1991 - 428 pages
...objects and thoughts, it simplifies to the point of distortion the experience it purports to represent: "We name our thoughts simply, each after its thing,...ought to be named after all of them, but it never is." James even lamented the fact that language carried its own quite spurious test of meaning: "if words... | |
 | Kevin J. H. Dettmar - 1992 - 406 pages
...feeling so limited to the present as not to have an inkling of anything that went before. Here, again, language works against our perception of the truth....is named for, with dimly perhaps a thousand other things.22 Thus the mind works not by holding some number of discrete objects before the passive mirror... | |
 | P. Naur - 1995 - 388 pages
...the feeling of the thunder is also a feeling of the silence as just gone. ... [I 241] Here, again, language works against our perception of the truth....ought to be named after all of them, but it never is. Some of them are always things known a moment ago more clearly; others are things to be known more... | |
 | Mark Bauerlein - 1997 - 164 pages
...truth" (p. 234) by substantiating a portion of experience and treating it as simple and independent: "We name our thoughts simply, each after its thing, as if each knew its own thing and nothing else." This is a grammatical violence to the continuity of thinking, a repression of the relational meaning... | |
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