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William James - A pluralistic universe (1908)

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We may be in the Universe as dogs and cats are in our libraries, seeing the books and hearing the conversation, but having no inkling of the meaning of it all.

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Pluralism lets things really exist in the each-form or distributively. Monism thinks that the all-form or collective-unit form is the only form that is rational.

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Our intelligence cannot wall itself up alive, like a pupa in a chrysalis. It must at any cost keep on speaking terms with the universe that engendered it.

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When you have broken the reality into concepts you never can reconstruct it in its wholeness.

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William James
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Born: January 11, 1842
Died: August 26, 1910 (aged 68)
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