...as to the meaning of reality and as to the meaning of agreement. James' pragmatism says, "True ideas are those that we can assimilate, validate, corroborate, and verify. False ideas are those that we cannot. The truth of an idea is not a stagnant property inherent in it. Truth happens to an idea."...

...in experiential terms?" The moment pragmatism asks this question, 200 it sees the answer: True ideas are those that we can assimilate, validate, corroborate...and verify. False ideas are those that we can not. That is the practical difference it makes to us to have true ideas; that, therefore, is the meaning...

...in experiential terms?" The moment pragmatism asks this question, 200 it sees the answer: True ideas are those that we can assimilate, validate, corroborate...and verify. False ideas are those that we can not. That is the practical difference it makes to us to have true ideas; that, therefore, is the meaning...

...James puts forward in opposition to the supposed intellectualist position, namely, that " true ideas are those that we can assimilate, validate, corroborate...and verify, false ideas are those that we can not" (p. 201 ; italics the author's). To be sure, the verifying in question is sometimes referred to by...

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...is the meaning of truth, for it is all that truth is known-as. This thesis is what I have to defend. The truth of an idea is not a stagnant property inherent in it. Tnithjmgffgna to an idea. It becomes true, is made true by events. Its verity is uPfact an pv"*, g...

...terms?" The moment pragmatism asks this question, it sees the answer: True ideas are those that we can validate, corroborate and verify. False ideas are those that we can not. That is the practical difference it makes to us to have true ideas; that, therefore, is the meaning...

..."The Action of Truth" we read on p. 20 1 another italicized definition of the same kind: "True ideas are those that we can assimilate, validate, corroborate...and verify. False ideas are those that we can not. That is the practical difference it makes to us to have true ideas ; that, therefore, is the meaning...

...the reality of the totality of things applies equally to the details. "True ideas," says Professor James, "are those that we can assimilate, validate,...corroborate, and verify. False ideas are those that we cannot." * Even mathematical truths, which are supposed to be the most certain of objective realities,...

...reply to the question asked by him and reproduced above, and his definition of the true : " True ideas are those that we can assimilate, validate, corroborate, and verify. False ideas are those that we cannot," etc. (Pragmatism, p. 201.) Let us look again at these terms. Those that we can assimilate;...