William James Quotes About Property

Quotes about: Property

• Truth, as any dictionary will tell you, is a property of certain of our ideas. It means their agreement, as falsity means their disagreement, with reality.

  William James

  Truth, Mean, Reality

  William James (2016). “William James: Essays and Lectures”, p.99, Routledge

• The entire routine of our memorized acquisitions, for example, is a consequence of nothing but the Law of Contiguity. The words of a poem, the formulas of trigonometry, the facts of history, the properties of material things, are all known to us as definite systems or groups of objects which cohere in an order fixed by innumerable iterations, and of which any one part reminds us of the others.

  William James

  Philosophy, Educational, Order

  "Talks to Teachers on Psychology: And to Students on Some of Life's Ideals".

• A good hypothesis in science must have other properties than those of the phenomenon it is immediately invoked to explain, otherwise it is not prolific enough.

  William James

  Statistics, Enough, Hypothesis

  William James (1987). “Writings, 1902-1910”, p.462, Library of America

• The instinct of ownership is fundamental in man's nature.

  William James

  Wisdom, Men, Rights

  William James (1987). “Writings, 1902-1910”, p.288, Library of America

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