Mysticism an Epistemological Problem a Dissertation Presented to the Faculty of the Graduate School, of Yale University in Candidacy for the Degree of Doctor of Philosophy (Classic Reprint) - Softcover

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Not this ultimate Fact which I have found, he says, is unreal, nothing, but all the world of sense and feeling and thought with which I contrast it. The unknowable reality of the mystic must receive content; it cannot receive any content by positive definition, but only by contrast. Therefore the mystic says that all that is real it is not, yet it alone is real; hence all that we know is unreal, dream-stuff, a vast illusion. That is, as Prof. Royce has pointed out,2 the mystic seeks to give character to his ultimate zero by contrasting it with the real world, which must become, however, for that purpose, just another zero, and no more in metaphysics than in mathematics is the subtraction of one zero from another an intelligible process, giving any real result.2 Mysticism is a bad philosophy.

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