...they disagree as to the meaning of reality and as to the meaning of agreement. James' pragmatism says, "True ideas are those that we can assimilate, validate,...corroborate, and verify. False ideas are those that we cannot. The truth of an idea is not a stagnant property inherent in it. Truth happens to an idea."...

...terms?" The moment pragmatism asks this question, it sees the answer: True ideas are those that we can validate, corroborate and verify. False ideas are...the meaning of truth, for it is all that truth is known as. This thesis is what I have to defend. The truth of an idea is not a stagnant property inherent...

...Professor James puts forward in opposition to the supposed intellectualist position, namely, that " true ideas are those that we can assimilate, validate,...and verify, false ideas are those that we can not" (p. 201 ; italics the author's). To be sure, the verifying in question is sometimes referred to by...

...cash-value in experiential terms?" The moment pragmatism asks this question. 200 it sees the answer: True ideas are those that we can assimilate, validate^ corroborate and verify. Falseideas are those that we can not. That is the practical difference it makes to us to have true...

...prominence. Surely we can all agree, when we are satisfied to speak in a large and loose way, that " true ideas are those that we can assimilate, validate, corroborate, and verify"; that our notion of truth is " bound up with the way in which one moment in our experience may lead...

...James's reply to the question asked by him and reproduced above, and his definition of the true : " True ideas are those that we can assimilate, validate,...corroborate, and verify. False ideas are those that we cannot," etc. {Pragmatism, p. 2o1.) Let us look again at these terms. Those that we can assimilate;...

...reality of the totality of things applies equally to the details. "True ideas," says Professor James, "are those that we can assimilate, validate, corroborate, and verify. False ideas are those that we cannot." * Even mathematical truths, which are supposed to be the most certain of objective realities,...

...truth's cash-value in experiential terms?" The moment pragmatism asks this question, it sees the answer: True ideas are those that we can assimilate, validate, corroborate, and verify. i False ideas are those that we cannot. That is the practical difference it makes to us to have true...

...anticipate the results of these same researches. Jos Pragmatism, New York, Longmans, 1913, p. 201. "True ideas are those that we can assimilate, validate, corroborate and verify, etc." Every writer knows how convincing a demonstration of his ideas is their reflection in common...

...nach seiner Meinung ihr eigentliches pragmatisches Wesen am deutlichsten enthüllt. Sie lautet 8 ): „True ideas are those that we can assimilate, validate,...therefore, is the meaning of truth, for it is all that trutli is known-as. — The truth of an idea is not a staguaut property inherent in it. Truth happens...