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Empiricism (n.) is the philosophical concern with the world as it is experienced by an embodied, embedded, and acting agent.
Empiricism (n.) is a philosophical orientation whose task is to explicate the lived structures that constitute our uniquely human way of being in the world.
Empiricism's (n.) lasting truth is that the bottom of being is left logically opaque to us.
Truth (n.) means nothing other than an idea's power to work.
Truth (n.) is always a go-between, a smoother-over of transitions, marrying as it does old opinion to new fact so as ever to show a minimum of jolt and a maximum of continuity.
Truth (n.) is any kind of thought which serves to satisfy an organism's interests.
Truth (n.) is, in terms of true ideas, those ideas that we can assimilate, validate, corroborate, and verify. False ideas are those that we cannot.
Truth (n.) is not a stagnant property inherent in something. Rather, truth happens to an idea. It becomes true and is made true by an event, a process, the process namely of its verifying itself, its verification.
Truth (n.) is not facts and facts cannot be said to be true, rather truths emerge from facts and dip forward into facts again and adds to them, and so on indefinitely.
Truth (n.) is not ideas simply copying their objects definitely in the mind: Namely, 'what would be different if it were false rather than true'.
Truth (n.) is the name for those thoughts that guide us to beneficial interaction with sensible particulars as they occur, whether they copy these in advance or not.
Truth (n.) is such that the greatest enemy of any one of our truths may be the rest of our truths.
Truth (n.) is something happens to an idea. The idea becomes true, is made true by events, and its verity is itself in fact an event.
Truth (n.) is such that the ultimate test of what any given truth means is the conduct it dictates or inspires.
The Truth (n.) is only the expedient in the way of our thinking just as 'the right' is only the expedient in the way of our behaving.
Truth (n.) is the name of whatever proves itself to be good in the way of belief, and good, too, for definite, assignable reasons.
Death (n.) is all our fates. Every individual existence goes out in a lonely spasm of helpless agony.
Time (n.) is not a collection of moments always on a knife's edge. Rather, the 'now' is a saddle-back on which we sit perched and from which we look in two directions into time.
Time (n.) is an independent continuum not to be construed according to the ground plan of pace.
Time (n.) is not some container within which events flow, to be grasped separately, but rather the features of temporality are at once features of our temporal experience of a temporal universe.
God's (n.) evidence of existence lies primarily in inner personal experiences.
Success (n.) is, along with failure, more dependent upon attitude than upon capacity.
Success (n.) is our national disease (owing to the squalid cash interpretation we put on it).
Success (n.) is the bitch goddess we worship.
Language (n.) is the most imperfect and expensive means yet discovered for communicating thought.
Fear (n.) is a feeling preceded by something bodily. In short, 'we fear, because we're trembling'.
Reality (n.) is that which we attend to.
Reality (n.) is created from perception, just as perception is created from thoughts. Thus, by altering one’s thoughts, one alters ones reality.