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jeffdown1 at Jan 15, 2016 11:49 PM

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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