...for instance, in this connection : " The truth of an idea is not a stagnant property inherent in it. Truth happens to an idea. It becomes true, is made true by events" (p. vi). Such a definition brings to the foreground the element of contingency which, according to...

...verify; false ideas are those we can not. The truth of an idea is not a stagnant property inherent in it. Truth happens to an idea; it becomes true, is made true by events. Its validity is, in fact. an event. a process, the process, namely, of its verifying itself — its verification....

...This thesis is what I have to defend. The truth of an idea is not a stagnant property inherent in it. Truth happens to an idea. It becomes true, is made...process: the process namely of its verifying itself, its veri-fication. Its validity is the process of its valid-ation. But what do the words verification and...

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...This thesis is what I have to defend. The truth of an idea is not a stagnant property. inherent in it. Truth happens to an idea. It becomes true, is made true by events. Its verify"" is in fact an event, a process: the process namely of its verifying itself, its veri-fication....

...they become true. He says (p. 201): "The truth of an idea is not a stagnant property inherent in it. Truth happens to an idea. It becomes true, is made...: the process namely of its verifying itself, its veri-fication. Its validity is the process of its valid-ation." This will be a puzzle to the reader...

...purpose. Theories will not only be proved true because they work, but will become true when they work. "Truth happens to an idea. It becomes true, is made true by events" (p. 201). In other words, the true can be construed entirely in terms of the expedient. The true, as...

...the mind, being the accord of some of its processes and objects with other processes and objects."1 " Truth happens to an idea. It becomes true, is made...the process, namely, of. its verifying itself, its veri-faation. Its validity is the process of its valid-#/z'0»." 2 " The truth of our beliefs consists...