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 Meaning of Truth: A Sequel to "Pragmatism," - Page viiiby William James - 1909 - 297 pagesFull view - About this book
| Theology - 1912 - 620 pages
...property inherent in it. Truth happens to an idea; it becomes true, is made true by events. Its validity is, in fact. an event. a process, the process, namely,...its verification. Its validity is the process of its validation. Truth, therefore, is, in a sense, made by the mind, or it grows in the process of human... | |
| William James - Philosophy - 1907 - 338 pages
...to defend. 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...veri-fication. Its validity is the process of its valid-ation. But what do the words verification and validation themselves pragmatically mean? They... | |
| William James - Philosophy - 1907 - 336 pages
...defend. The ' t" 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...process: the process namely of its verifying itself, its ven-fication. Its validity is the process of its valid-ation. But what do the words verification and... | |
| William James - Pragmatism - 1907 - 342 pages
...happens to an. idea. — It- v .==— • ^fifc— — — ^- y becomes true^ j§Ljg&gjg true byj^yents. Its verity is in fact an event, a process: the process...veri-fication. Its validity is the process of its valid-ation. But what do the words verification and valid ation themselves pragmatically mean? They... | |
| Electronic journals - 1907 - 1012 pages
...'eventual verification,' the 'function of a leading that is worth while.' "Truth happens to an idea. It becomes true, is made true by events. Its verity...the process, namely, of its verifying itself, its verification."4 These are certainly plain statements, and the pragmatic meaning of truth can not be... | |
| William James - Pragmatism - 1907 - 336 pages
...property. inherent in it. Truth happens to an idea. It becomes true, is made true by events. Its verify"" is in fact an event, a process: the process namely...veri-fication. Its validity is the process of its valid-ation. But what do the words verification and validation themselves pragmatically mean? They... | |
| William James - Pragmatism - 1907 - 360 pages
...Tnithjmgffgna to an idea. It becomes true, is made true by events. Its verity is uPfact an pv"*, g process: the process namely of its verifying itself,...veri-fication. Its validity is the process of its valid-afion. But what do the words verification and validation themselves pragmatically mean? They... | |
| William James - Pragmatism - 1907 - 336 pages
...defend. 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, £_p_rocess :)the process namely of its verifying itself, its veri-fication. < Its validity is the... | |
| Paul Carus - Electronic journals - 1908 - 786 pages
...(p. 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...veri-fication. Its validity is the process of its valid-ation." This will be a puzzle to the reader until he understands the statement in the light of... | |
| Albert Schinz - Pragmatism - 1909 - 328 pages
...translation. 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...veri-fication. Its validity is the process of its vali-dation." (James, Pragmatism, p. 201, who here gives a gloss on Schiller, Humanism, p. xv.) That... | |
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