William James · Philosophy
William James’s pragmatism - the method that settles disputes by tracing their practical consequences, and the theory that an idea’s truth is not a property it simply has but something that <em>happens</em> to it, as the idea proves its worth in experience.
You learned that pragmatism is first a method (trace an idea’s practical consequences to find its meaning) and then a theory of truth (the true is what verifies itself and works, ‘the expedient in the way of our thinking’). Explain both in your own words.
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