MS 628-640 (1909) - Meaning

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Chapter I and Preface

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1909 Oct 23 2 P.M. MEANING PREFACE 11

most of all opposes is that toward regarding human consciousness as the author of rationality, instead of as more or less conforming to rationality. Even if we can find no better definition of rationality than that it is that character of arguments to which an indefinitely great experience and reflexion would tend indefinitely to make the character to which to human approval conform, the there still remains a world-wide difference between that idea and the opinion just mentioned. But the thinkers of our day seem to regard the distinction between being [?] the product of the human mind and being that to which the human mind would approximate to thinking if sufficiently influenced by experience and reflection, as a distinction of altogether of secondary importance, and hardly worth notice; while to the writer, no distinction appears more momentous than that between

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"is" and "would be".

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