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For the 'trower' at any moment, truth, like the visible area round a man walking in a fog, or like what George Eliot calls 'the wall of dark seen by small fishes' eyes that pierce a span in the wide Ocean, 'is an objective field which the next moment enlarges and of which it is the critic, and which then either suffers alteration or is continued unchanged.
Meaning of Truth William James 1876
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Good consequences are not proposed by us merely as a sure sign, mark, or criterion, by which truth's presence is habitually ascertained, tho they may indeed serve on occasion as such a sign; they are proposed rather as the lurking motive inside of every truth-claim, whether the 'trower' be conscious of such motive, or whether he obey it blindly.
Meaning of Truth William James 1876
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Then played some robin trower-sounding stuff ZVex Woolly Mammoth & Ooh-Wah into Big Briar Moogerfooger delay in serial but rarely all at once, then into an Akai Headrush stomplooper to relax with.
WAP-WAP badger 2002
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Meanwhile what actually DOES count for true to any individual trower, whether he be philosopher or common man, is always a result of his APPERCEPTIONS.
Meaning of Truth William James 1876
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They forget that in any concrete account of what is denoted by 'truth' in human life, the word can only be used relatively to some particular trower.
Meaning of Truth William James 1876
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But the critic is himself only a trower; and if the whole process of experience should terminate at that instant, there would be no otherwise known independent reality with which HIS thought might be compared.
Meaning of Truth William James 1876
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It easily gets tones like hendrix, trower and gilmore, and with the level knob it can add almost like a fuzz to an overdriven amp.
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- November 10, 2008 thats a really cool … thats a really cool vid mate i want a flame trower behind my car too: p yeah man, oversea's they definatly know what cars are good, and how to trick em out. the song is called you'll be under my wheels by the prodigy
xml's Blinklist.com 2008
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not a trower fan, more of a jeff beck man m'self, but i get what you mean, fakey-steve-o.
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