Pragmatism, a New Name for Some Old Ways of Thinking: Popular Lectures on PhilosophyLongmans, Green, 1907 - 308 sider "The lectures that follow were delivered at the Lowell Institute in Boston in November and December 1906, and in January 1907 at Columbia University in New York"--Pref."First edition, June 1907. Reprinted July (twice), October 1907"--Verso of t.p. Includes index. The present dilemma in philosophy -- What pragmatism means -- Some metaphysical problems pragmatically considered -- The one and the many -- Pragmatism and common sense -- Pragmatism's conception of truth -- Pragmatism and humanism -- Pragmatism and religion. |
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Abso Absolute absolute monism abstract actual believe better called Charles Peirce claim clash common sense conceive conception concrete connexion definite difference doctrine empiricism empiricist ence eternal everything evil exist experience F. H. Bradley facts feel finite follow free-will give human hypothesis ical ideal imagine intellectual intellectualist kind knower live logic Lowell Institute lute materialistic matic matism matter ment mental metaphysical monistic moral holidays nature ness never notion object pantheistic particular philo philosophy plural pluralistic possible practical prag pragmatic method PRAGMATISM MEANS pragmatist principle question radical rationalism rationalist rationalist mind reality reason religion religious Schiller Scholasticism seems simple sort spirit squirrel substance supposed talk tautomer temperament tender-minded theism theory things thought tically tion tism tough-minded transcendental idealism treat true ideas truth turn unity universe vague verified whole word
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Side 201 - 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 validation.
Side 222 - The true,' to put it very briefly, is only the expedient in the way of our thinking, just as 'the right' is only the expedient in the way of our behaving. Expedient in almost any fashion; and expedient in the long run and on the whole of course; for what meets expediently all the experience in sight won't necessarily meet all farther experiences equally satisfactorily.
Side 104 - ... the energies of our system will decay, the glory of the sun will be dimmed, and the earth, tideless and inert, will no longer tolerate the race which has for a moment disturbed its solitude. Man will go down into the pit, and all his thoughts will perish.
Side 50 - There is absolutely nothing new in the pragmatic method. Socrates was an adept at it. Aristotle used it methodically. Locke, Berkeley, and Hume made momentous contributions to truth by its means. Shadworth Hodgson keeps insisting that realities are only what they are "known as.
Side 91 - For supposing a man punished now for what he had done in another life, whereof he could be made to have no consciousness at all, what difference is there between that punishment, and being created miserable...
Side 64 - That new idea is truest which performs most felicitously its function of satisfying our double urgency. It makes itself true, gets itself classed as true, by the way it works; grafting itself then upon the ancient body of truth, which thus grows much as a tree grows by the activity of a new layer of cambium.
Side 44 - Everyone had taken sides and was obstinate; and the numbers on both sides were even. Each side, when I appeared, therefore appealed to me to make it a majority. Mindful of the scholastic adage that whenever you meet a contradiction, you must make a distinction, I immediately sought and found one, as follows: "Which party is right," I said, "depends on what you practically mean by going round the squirrel.
Side 201 - 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.
Side 297 - A shipwrecked sailor buried on this coast Bids you set sail. Full many a bark, when we were lost, Weathered the gale.
Side 47 - Peirce, the principle of pragmatism. It lay entirely unnoticed by any one for twenty years, until I, in an address before Professor Howison's Philosophical Union at the University of California, brought it forward again and made a special application of it to religion. By that date (1898) the times seemed ripe for its reception. The word "pragmatism" spread, and at present it fairly spots the pages of the philosophic journals.