Rhetoric CFPs & TOCs

Rhetoric CFPs & TOCs
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Friday, June 15, 2018

Hulme on Cinders

From Speculations:
https://archive.org/stream/speculations031991mbp/speculations031991mbp_djvu.txt

IN spite of pretensions to absolute truth,
the results of philosophy are always tested by
the effects, and by the judgments of other
philosophers. There is always an appeal to a
circle of people. The same is true of values in
art, in morals. A man cannot stand alone on
absolute ground, but always appeals to his
fellows.
Therefore it is suggested that there is no
such thing as an absolute truth to be dis-
covered. All general statements about truth,
etc., are in the end only amplifications of
man's appetites.
The ultimate reality is a circle of persons,
i.e. animals who communicate.
There is a kind of gossamer web, woven
between the real things, and by this means
the animals communicate. 

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