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trary, quite conclusively, that science has always been at heart Realistic, and always must be so; and upon comparing his writings with mine, one it is easily seen that these features of nominalism which I pointed out in science are merely superficial and transient.
The heart of the dispute lies in this. All The modern philosophers , --one and all, unless Schelling be an exception,- recognize but one mode of being, the being of an individual thing or fact, the being which consists in the object's force crowding its way into out a place for itself in the universe, so to speak, and reacting by brute force of fact, against all other things. I call that
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trary, quite conclusively, that science has always been at heart Realistic, and always must be so; and upon comparing his writings with mine, one it is easily seen that these features of nominalism which I pointed out in science are merely superficial and transient.
The heart of the dispute lies in this. All The modern philosophers,—one and all, unless Schelling be an exception,— recognize but one mode of being, the being of an individual thing or fact, the being which consists in the object's force crowding its way into out a place for itself in the universe, so to speak, and reacting by brute force of fact, against all other things. I call that