A Pluralistic Universe · William James
LECTURE III
Note 1, page 94.--Hegel, _Smaller Logic_, pp. 184-185. Note 2, page 95.--Cf. Hegel's fine vindication of this function of contradiction in his _Wissenschaft der Logik_, Bk. ii, sec. 1, chap, ii, C, Anmerkung 3. Note 3, page 95--_Hegel_, in _Blackwood's Philosophical Classics_, p. 162. Note 4, page 95--_Wissenschaft der Logik_, Bk. i, sec. 1, chap, ii, B, a. Note 5, page 96--Wallace's translation of the _Smaller Logic_, p. 128. Note 6, page 101--Joachim, _The Nature of Truth_, Oxford, 1906, pp. 22, 178. The argument in case the belief should be doubted would be the higher synthetic idea: if two truths were possible, the duality of that possibility would itself be the one truth that would unite them. Note 7, page 115.--_The World and the Individual_, vol. ii, pp. 385, 386, 409. Note 8, page 116.--The best _un_inspired argument (again not ironical!) which I know is that in Miss M.W. Calkins's excellent book, _The Persistent Problems of Philosophy_, Macmillan, 1902. Note 9, page 117.--Cf. Dr. Fuller's excellent article,' Ethical monism and the problem of evil,' in the _Harvard Journal of Theology_, vol. i, No. 2, April, 1908. Note 10, page 120.--_Metaphysic_, sec. 79. Note 11, page 121.--_Studies in the Hegelian Dialectic_, secs. 150, 153. Note 12, page 121.--_The Nature of Truth_, 1906, pp. 170-171. Note 13, page 121.--_Ibid._, p. 179. Note 14, page 123.--The psychological analogy that certain finite tracts of consciousness are composed of isolable parts added together, cannot be used by absolutists as proof that such parts are essential elements of all consciousness. Other finite fields of consciousness seem in point of fact not to be similarly resolvable into isolable parts.
Note 15, page 128.--Judging by the analogy of the relation which our central consciousness seems to bear to that of our spinal cord, lower ganglia, etc., it would seem natural to suppose that in whatever superhuman mental synthesis there may be, the neglect and elimination of certain contents of which we are conscious on the human level might be as characteristic a feature as is the combination and interweaving of other human contents. Note 1, page 143.--_The Spirit of Modern Philosophy_, p. 227. Note 2, page 165.--Fechner: _Über die Seelenfrage_, 1861, p. 170. Note 3, page 168.--Fechner's latest summarizing of his views, _Die Tagesansicht gegenüber der Nachtansicht_, Leipzig, 1879, is now, I understand, in process of translation. His _Little Book of Life after Death_ exists already in two American versions, one published by Little, Brown & Co., Boston, the other by the Open Court Co., Chicago. Note 4, page 176.--Mr. Bradley ought to be to some degree exempted from my attack in these last pages. Compare especially what he says of non-human consciousness in his _Appearance and Reality_, pp. 269-272.
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