“We may not feel as confident as once we did that the way to truth lies all open before us the moment we have brought our vague questionings to a form that "leaves the rest to experiment."”

—  Edgar A. Singer, Jr.

Source: Mind As Behavior And Studies In Empirical Idealism, (1924), p. v: Preface

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