...intellectual activity or a manifestation of our objects which turn out to be useful." 1' James says, "Truth happens to an idea. It becomes true, is made...in fact an event, a process: the process namely of "Op. tit., p. 50. 18 James: Pragmatism, pp. 46, 47. "Ibid., pp. 54, 55. 18 James: Mind, Vol. XTV, p....

...to an idea or a course of conduct: 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 ven-ficatton. Its validity is the process of its valid-a/7o«. . . . The true is the name of whatever...

...Pragmatism (1907) 1946:200-201. 28 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-aficm. Pragmatism (1907) 1946:201. 29 If now...

...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 va\id-ation. But what do the words verification and...

...ideas are those that 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...verity is in fact an event, a process, the process... of its verifying itself, its verification. Its validity is the process of its validation" (James, 1907b,...

...either that 'it is useful because it is true,' or that 'it is true because it is useful'" (p. 204). "Truth happens to an idea. It becomes true, is made true by events" (p. 201). "The reasons why we call things true is the reason why they are true, for 'to be true' means...

...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-/zft'0«.51 An overbelief is therefore true...

...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 \a\id-ation. But what do the words verification and...

...things as they appear to us. He writes, "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 verity is in fact an event, a process."9 The only standards of verification, however, are ultimately aesthetic, because "the connexions...

...property inherent in it; truth happens to ideas. Ideas become true through events. The truth of an event "is in fact an event, a process: the process namely of its verifying itself, its \en-fication, "James explained. "Its validity is the process of its \a\\d-ation. "Even the words "verification"...