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Philosophy As Criticism and Point of View
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 25 February 2009
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Last year the B.B.C. arranged for certain eminent men to broadcast their Points of View to the public. The result was a most interesting series of talks; but for the sceptical philosopher the series was chiefly entertaining for its brilliantly illustrating the old tag: quot homines, tot sententiæ. One was struck not merely by the discrepancy of opinion, but by how each speaker was ‘true to type': the biologist, the physicist with a taste for spiritualism, the Christian Platonist, and the rest—each spoke his part and told of a world built according to his own particular measuring-rod.
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page 337 note1 Cf. Dewey's, Experience and Nature, p. 2.Google Scholar
page 341 note 1 It is worth noticing that the word ‘Reality’ signifies primarily ‘thingness’ or ‘objectivity,’ so that the very use of the word in this inclusive philosophical sense tends to prejudice our judgment. The argument might perhaps be better expressed if we used the word ‘Being’ instead, and said that Reality is only a single phase or aspect of Being.
page 346 note 1 Death and Renewal, by Bjerre, Paul. Cf. The Times Literary Supplement for 08 8, 1929.Google Scholar