Carolina QuotesThe theory of empiricism is plausible because it assumes that accuracy about small matters prepares the way for valid judgment about large ones. What happens, however, is that the judgments are never made. The pedantic empiricist, buried in his little province of phenomena, imagines that fidelity to it exempts him from concern with larger aspects of reality.
Richard M. Weaver Carolinian
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p. 60
- work
- Ideas have Consequences (1948)
- year
- 1948
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- p. 60
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