it means they say nothing but this the ideas…

Page 100 it means they say nothing but this the ideas Themselves are but parts of our experience, become true, just in so far as they help us to get into satisfactory relation, with other parts of our experience, to summarize them, and get about among them by conceptual shortcuts, instead of following the interminable succession of particular phenomena.

— from The Instruments (Awareness/Perception/Expectations) · Pragmatism edited by Louis menand

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