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Excerpt from The Belief Element in Judgment: A Dissertation
But we cannot trace a Meaning before we have oriented it. If, therefore, we are to make an intelligent search for belief in judg ment, we must first fix upon what is venerally conceived to be its nature. Moreover, should belief he found in Judgment; if it does for judgment What we have a sumed; if, that is, it shows that thinkins has for its whole business the illumining of the particular phenome non of then, it implies a reference to reality, and means at the same time the satisfaction of some inner demand- some demand of the Bro. How, indeed, would it alter abstract, barren thought to find it contained belief, if belief had its whole meaning in an immediate experience9 It would afford no proof that thought accommodates itself to growing experience, and is not made up of static universals that 1reep aloof from developing nature. Were it all told when we say that belief is a feelinn or sensation, then, belief would have no sirnificance in judgment one way or the other, either rationally or empirically.
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