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" 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 499
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Pragmatism, a New Name for Some Old Ways of Thinking: Popular Lectures on ...

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...
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Pragmatism, a New Name for Some Old Ways of Thinking: Popular ..., Volume 10

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...
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Pragmatism, a New Name for Some Old Ways of Thinking: Popular Lectures on ...

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?...
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Pragmatism: A New Name for Some Old Ways of Thinking : Popular Lectures on ...

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...
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The Philosophical Review, Volume 16

Jacob Gould Schurman, James Edwin Creighton, Frank Thilly, Gustavus Watts Cunningham - Electronic journals - 1907 - 714 pages
...belief, and good, too, for definite assignable reasons ' ' (p. 76; italics the author's). We cannot "keep the notion of what is better for us, and what is true for us, permanently apart. ' ' I cannot see how any idealist can take exception to these statements. He takes their truth for...
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Mind, Volume 17

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...
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Anti-pragmatism; an Examination Into the Respective ..., Volume 61; Volume 589

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...
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Anti-pragmatism; an Examination Into the Respective ..., Volume 61; Volume 589

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...
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Truth on Trial: An Exposition of the Nature of Truth, Preceded by a Critique ...

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...
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Truth on Trial: An Exposition of the Nature of Truth, Preceded by a Critique ...

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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