The true function of logic ... as applied to matters of experience ... is analytic rather than constructive; taken a priori, it shows the possibility of hitherto unsuspected alternatives more often than the impossibility of alternatives which seemed prima facie possible. Thus, while it liberates imagination as to what the world may be, it refuses to legislate as to what the world is.
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Logic cannot guarantee practical feasibility of imagined alternatives.
The life of man is a long march through the night, surrounded by invisible foes, tortured by weariness and pain, towards a goal that few can hope to reach, and…
The conception of the necessary unit of all that is resolves itself into the poverty of the imagination, and a freer logic emancipates us from the straitwaistc…
The slave is doomed to worship time and fate and death, because they are greater than anything he finds in himself, and because all his thoughts are of things …
What is the case, the fact, is the existence of atomic facts. (2)
Direct experience is the evasion, or hiding place of those devoid of imagination.
In all the previous cases of wholes, we have nowhere been able to argue from the parts of the whole. Compared to its parts, the whole constituted by them is so…