"Philosophy seeks not absolute first principles,
nor yet purely immediate insights,
but the self-mediation of the system of truth,
and an insight into this self-mediation."
— Josiah Royce in his article "Axiom" in Encyclopaedia of Religion and Ethics ,
edited by James Hastings (New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1910),
Vol. II, pp. 279-282, on page 282.
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