James: Truth Is a Property of Certain of Our Ideas

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„Truth, as any dictionary will tell you, is a property of certain of our ideas. It means their ‚agreement,‘ as falsity means their disagreement, with ‚reality.‘ Pragmatists and intellectualists both accept this definition as a matter of course. They begin to quarrel only after the question is raised as to what may precisely be meant by the term ‚agreement,‘ and what by the term ‚reality,‘ when reality is taken as something for our ideas to agree with.“ (p. 166) #James #truth #idea

James, William, Pragmatism. A New Name for Some Old Ways of Thinking 1907.

James: Truth

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„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 veri-FICATION. Its validity is the process of its valid-ATION.“ (p. 169) #James #truth #veri-FICATION #valid-ATION

James, William, Pragmatism. A New Name for Some Old Ways of Thinking 1907.

James: True Ideas

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„The moment pragmatism asks this question, it sees the answer: TRUE IDEAS ARE THOSE THAT WE CAN ASSIMILATE, VALIDATE, CORROBORATE AND VERIFY. FALSE IDEAS ARE THOSE THAT WE CANNOT. That is the practical difference it makes to us to have true ideas; that, therefore, is the meaning of truth, for it is all that truth is known-as.“ (p. 168f.) #James #TrueIdeas #truth

James, William, Pragmatism. A New Name for Some Old Ways of Thinking 1907.

Berkeley: Obvious Truth

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„Some truths there are so near and obvious to the mind that a man need only open his eyes to see them.“ (Of the Principles of Human Knowledge, §6) #Berkeley #truth #mind

Whitman: All Truths

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„All truths wait in all things,
They neither hasten their own delivery nor resist it.
They do not need the obstetric forceps of the surgeon.
The insignificant is as big to me as any,
(What is less or more than a touch ?)
Logic and sermons never convince,
The damp of the night drives deeper into my soul.“
(no. 30) #Whitman #AllTruths