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Which is as much as to say that the purely theoretic criterion of truth can leave us in the lurch as easily as any other criterion. I think that if Mr. Joseph will but consider all these things a little more concretely, he may find that the humanistic scheme and the notion of theoretic truth fall into line consistently enough to yield him also intellectual satisfaction. FOOTNOTES: [129] [Reprinted without change from _Mind_, N. S., vol. XIV, No. 54, April, 1905, pp. 190-198. Pages 245-247, and pp. 261-265, have also been reprinted in _The Meaning of Truth_, pp. 54-57, and pp. 97-100. The present essay is referred to above, p. 203. ED.] [130] ['Humanism and Truth' first appeared in _Mind_, N. S., vol. XIII, No. 52, October, 1904. It is reprinted in _The Meaning of Truth_, pp. 51-101. Cf. this article _passim_. Mr. H. W. B. Joseph's criticism, entitled "Professor James on 'Humanism and Truth,'" appeared in _Mind_, N. S., vol. XIV, No. 53, January, 1905. ED.] [131] _Op. cit._, p. 37. [132] [Cf. above, pp. 241-243.] [133] _Op. cit._, p. 32. [134] [This] Mr. Joseph deals with (though in much too pettifogging and logic-chopping a way) on pp. 33-34 of his article. [135] Compare some elaborate articles by M. Le Roy and M. Wilbois in the _Revue de Metaphysique et de Morale_, vols. VIII, IX, and X, [1900, 1901, and 1902.] [136] [Cf. _The Meaning of Truth_, p. 64.] [137] [Joseph: _op. cit._, p. 36.] [138] Most recently in two articles, "Does 'Consciousness' Exist?" and "A World of Pure Experience." [See above, pp. 1-91.] [139] For a recent attempt, effective on the whole, at squaring humanism with knowing, I may refer to Prof. Woodbridge's very able address at the Saint Louis Congress, "The Field of Logic," printed in _Science_, N. Y., November 4, 1904. XII ABSOLUTISM AND EMPIRICISM[140] No seeker of truth can fail to rejoice at the terre-a-terre sort of discussion of the issues between Empiricism and Transcendentalism (or, as the champions of the latter would probably prefer to say, between Irrationalism and Rationalism) that seems to have begun in _Mind_.[141] It would seem as if, over concrete examples like Mr. J. S. Haldane's, both parties ought inevitably to come to a better understanding. As a reader with a strong bias towards Irrationalism, I have studied his article[142] with the liveliest admiration of its temper and its painstaking effort to be clear. But the cases discussed
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