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Some Think To Avoid The Influence Of Metaphysical Errors, By Paying No Attention To Metaphysics; But Experience Shows That These Men Beyond All Others Are Held In An Iron Vice Of Metaphysical Theory, Because By Theories That They Have Never Called In Question.

It Is A Common Observation That Those Who Dwell Continually Upon Their Expectations Are Apt To Become Oblivious To The Requirements Of Their Actual Situation.

It Is... Easy To Be Certain. One Has Only To Be Sufficiently Vague.

All The Followers Of Science Are Fully Persuaded That The Processes Of Investigation, If Only Pushed Far Enough, Will Give One Certain Solution To Each Question To Which They Can Be Applied.... This Great Law Is Embodied In The Conception Of Truth And Reality. The Opinion Which Is Fated To Be Ultimately Agreed To By All Who Investigate Is What We Mean By The Truth, And The Object Represented In This Opinion Is The Real.

Three Elements Go To Make Up An Idea. The First Is Its Intrinsic Quality As A Feeling. The Second Is The Energy With Which It Affects Other Ideas, An Energy Which Is Infinite In The Here-and-nowness Of Immediate Sensation, Finite And Relative In The Recency Of The Past. The Third Element Is The Tendency Of An Idea To Bring Along Other Ideas With It.