“Some minds will jump here jump to the conclusion that a past idea cannot in any sense be present. But that is hasty and illogical.”

The Law of Mind (1892)
Context: Some minds will jump here jump to the conclusion that a past idea cannot in any sense be present. But that is hasty and illogical. How extravagant too, to pronounce our whole knowledge of the past to be mere delusion! Yet it would seem that the past is completely beyond the bounds of possible experience as a Kantian thing-in-itself.

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American philosopher, logician, mathematician, and scientist 1839–1914

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