The Meaning of Truth - Dr William James - Books - Createspace Independent Publishing Platf - 9781546908708 - May 31, 2017
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The Meaning of Truth

Dr William James

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The Meaning of Truth

'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, the process namely of its verifying itself, its veriFICATION. Its validity is the process of its validATION. [Footnote: But 'VERIFIABILITY, ' I add, 'is as good as verification. For one truth-process completed, there are a million in our lives that function in [the] state of nascency. They lead us towards direct verification; lead us into the surroundings of the object they envisage; and then, if everything, runs on harmoniously, we are so sure that verification is possible that we omit it, and are usually justified by all that happens.'] 'To agree in the widest sense with a reality can only mean to be guided either straight up to it or into its surroundings, or to be put into such working touch with it as to handle either it or something connected with it better than if we disagreed. Better either intellectually or practically .... Any idea that helps us to deal, whether practically or intellectually, with either the reality or its belongings, that doesn't entangle our progress in frustrations, that FITS, in fact, and adapts our life to the reality's whole setting, will agree sufficiently to meet the requirement. It will be true of that reality.

Media Books     Paperback Book   (Book with soft cover and glued back)
Released May 31, 2017
ISBN13 9781546908708
Publishers Createspace Independent Publishing Platf
Pages 156
Dimensions 152 × 229 × 8 mm   ·   217 g
Language English  

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