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2 revisions | kheilajones at Nov 17, 2018 06:17 PM | |
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6Prag 6 the truth of things: it is only a method of finding out the meanings of hard words and hard concepts, (for concepts are mental signs;) and this method is in essence the method of experiment of the physical sciences. Any instructed pragmatist of whatsoever stripe will testify to that. Beyond this, however, there is a slight divergence such as is to be found in every healthy and vigorous school of philosophy. The most prominent of all pragmatist, and the most respected is William James; and he defines prgamatism as the doctrine that the whole 'meaning' of a concept expresses itself either in the shape of conduct to be recommended or of experience to be expected, My own pragmatism differs from his but slightly in theory and less in practice. I understand it to be a method of ascertaining the meanings, not of all sorts of | 6 |