What would be better for us to believe"! This sounds very like a definition of truth. It comes very near to saying "what we ought to believe": and in that definition none of you would find any oddity. Ought we ever not to believe what it is better for... The Monist - Page 499edited by - 1909Full view - About this book
| William James - Pragmatism - 1907 - 336 pages
...would be better for us to believe'! This sounds very like a definition of truth. It comes very near to saying 'what we ought to believe ': and in that definition...for us, and what is true for us, permanently apart ? Pragmatism says no, and I fully agree with her. Probably you also agree, so far as the abstract statement... | |
| William James - Pragmatism - 1907 - 360 pages
...would be better for us to believe'! This sounds very like a definition of truthr It comes very near to saying 'what we ought to believe ': and in that definition...for us, and what is true for us, permanently apart ? Pragmatism says no, and I fully agree with her. Probably you also agree, so far as the abstract statement... | |
| William James - Pragmatism - 1907 - 336 pages
...would be better for us to believe'! This sounds very like a definition of truth. It comes very near to saying 'what we ought to believe ' : and in that definition...believe what it is better for us to believe ? And can^ve then keep the notion of what is better for_us, and what is true for us, permanently * apart?... | |
| William James - Pragmatism - 1907 - 336 pages
...: and in that definition none of j[ou ) would find any oddity. Ought we ever not to \_b~eTIeve"what it is better for us to believe ? And can we then keep...for us, and what is true for us, permanently apart? Pragmatism says no, and I fully agree with her. Probably you also agree, so far as the abstract statement... | |
| Electronic journals - 1908 - 624 pages
...is divine and precious, and its pursuit a duty, could never have grown up or become a dogma. . . . ' What would be better for us to believe ! ' This sounds...for us, and what is true for us, permanently apart ? " So far, however, from the general sense of mankind accepting ' what would be better for us to believe... | |
| Albert Schinz - Pragmatism - 1909 - 328 pages
...what we ought to believe ' ; and in that definition none of you would find any oddity. Ought we never not to believe what it is better for us to believe...for us, and what is true for us, permanently apart?" (Pragmatism, pp. 76-77.) And here is the way Mr. Schiller for his part (Humanism, p. xiii) passes from... | |
| Albert Schinz - Pragmatism - 1909 - 328 pages
...would be better for us to believe! This sounds very like a definition of truth. It comes very near to saying ' what we ought to believe ' ; and in that...definition none of you would find any oddity. Ought we never not to believe what it is better for us to believe? And can we then keep the notion of what is... | |
| Paul Carus - Pragmatism - 1911 - 152 pages
...would be better for us to believe' ! This sounds very like a definition of truth. It comes very near to saying 'what we ought to believe' : and in that definition...for us, and what is true for us, permanently apart? Pragmatism says no, and I fully agree with her." In the chapter entitled "The Action of Truth" we read... | |
| Paul Carus - Pragmatism - 1911 - 160 pages
...would be better for us to believe'! This sounds very like a definition of truth. It comes very near to saying 'what we ought to believe': and in that definition...not to believe what it is better for us to believe ?. im Wl A •1. I f M ilate, validate, corrobo- \ *: we can not. That is have true ideas; that, is... | |
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