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Quotation from Pragmatism: A New Name for Some Old Ways of Thinking by William James
“it lies in the midst of our theories, like a corridor in a hotel.”
Pragmatism: A New Name for Some Old Ways of Thinking, Lecture II (Project Gutenberg text)
James borrows Papini's image: pragmatism is a corridor from which rooms for atheists, believers, chemists and metaphysicians all open.
Citation: "it lies in the midst of our theories, like a corridor in a hotel." — William James, Pragmatism: A New Name for Some Old Ways of Thinking, Lecture II (Project Gutenberg text). (id james-pragmatism-q5)
Portrait: William James by Alice M. Boughton, c. 1907, platinum print, from the National Portrait Gallery - NPG-NPG 87 37James-000001 (cropped), Alice Boughton, Public domain.
