By Schubert Ogden
The Notebooks of Schubert Ogden
What is the problem with an inadequate philosophical doctrine? Is it that it fails to justify the practice of daily life, as Whitehead says (AI: 289), or is it that it fails to be justified by such practice?
If philosophy's "ultimate appeal is to the general consciousness of what in practice we experience" (PRc: 17 [25]), then, surely, it is practice that justifies theory, not the other way around.
Or are both statements true: theory in its way justifies practice, even as practice in its way justifies theory?
20 October 2000
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