well, from the jus’ ‘cause. i mean, bourgeois and highbrow speculation alone shall never suffice, especially for the folk who’ll almost never encounter such philosophy anyway…but who am i to say, right? maybe more authoritative for you, and certainly more elegant, is James who asserts it this way:
“the thinker starts from some experience of the practical world, and asks its meaning. he, then, launches himself upon the speculative sea, and makes a voyage long or short. he ascends into the empyrean, even, communing with the eternal essences. but whatever his achievements and discoveries be while gone, the utmost result they can issue in is some new practical maxim or resolve, or the denial of some old one, with which inevitably he is sooner or later washed ashore on the terra firma of concrete life again.” — WILLIAM JAMES (“Reflex Action and Theism,” 1881)
yeah…that says enough, I think
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