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tions with a pragmatic and empirical background, we are in a some–
what better position than they, with their phenomenological training,
to find the pertinent answers. Sullivan is here a case in point; his
observations of interpersonal behavior, made under optimum con–
ditions for impartiality, are examples of what our science can do to
save us from the kind of talk that is often very close to nonsense in
Sartre about an existential,
a priori
psychoanalysis.*
The new questions raised by our psychoanalysis (I refer to Sul–
livan and Kardiner specifically) can, I believe, issue in a new
ground–
ing
for our pragmatism, a grounding which can establish what a prag–
matism for a human being and
his
world (in Kant's sense of the
world
for
man, the citizen
of
the world) can be.
*
From the above criticism of the existentialists I would exempt Jaspers who
stresses the value
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scientific and empirical investigation but supplements it with
a view of the human being as possible existence which allows for the construction
of a world that is something beyond the bare everything-that-is of the naturalist
but is largely free from the sentimentalism of the religious personalist.
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