| William James - Pragmatism - 1907 - 336 pages
...speech a shuffling evasion, saying they wanted no quibbling or scholastic hairsplitting, but meant just plain honest English ' round,' the majority seemed...simple example of what I wish now to ^ speak of as the jrzagmailit) nietftSiT. The prag-"' matic method is primarily a method of settling metaphys icaToTSputes... | |
| William James - Pragmatism - 1907 - 336 pages
...speech a shuffling evasion, saying they wanted no quibbling or scholastic hairsplitting, but meant just plain honest English 'round,' the majority seemed...peculiarly simple example of what I wish now to speak of as the_pragmatic method^ The pragmatic method is primarily a method of settling metaphysical disputes... | |
| John Watson - Religion - 1907 - 524 pages
...either do or do not give satisfaction to our whole nature. The pragmatic method, as thus understood, is " primarily a method of settling metaphysical disputes that otherwise might be interminable."1 At the same time it "does not stand for any special results. It is a method only."*... | |
| John Angus MacVannel - Education - 1912 - 234 pages
...functional view of mind.) (6) 7/5 motor theory of truth. — In his book Pragmatism Professor James says: "The pragmatic method is primarily a method of settling...metaphysical disputes that otherwise might be interminable. . . . The pragmatic method in such cases is to try to interpret each notion by tracing its respective... | |
| Henri Johan Frans Willem Brugmans - Humanism - 1913 - 216 pages
...only determine what conduct it is fitted to produce: that conduct is for us its sole significance 1). The pragmatic method is primarily a method of settling...metaphysical disputes that otherwise might be interminable. The pragmatic method in such cases is to try to interpret each notion by tracing its respective practical... | |
| Woodbridge Riley - Philosophy, American - 1915 - 390 pages
...the richest intimacy with facts. This is again a recourse to the pragmatic method as primarily one of settling metaphysical disputes that otherwise might...many? — fated or free? — material or spiritual? Disputes over such notions are unending, unless we try to interpret each notion by tracing its respective... | |
| Woodbridge Riley - Philosophy, American - 1915 - 424 pages
...the richest intimacy with facts. This is again a recourse to the pragmatic method as primarily one of settling metaphysical disputes that otherwise might be interminable. Is the world one or many?—fated or free?—material or spiritual? Disputes over such notions are unending, unless we... | |
| William Bennett Bizzell, Marcus Homer Duncan - Education - 1918 - 282 pages
...and the idea of the theory of knowledge distinct in presenting his conception of pragmatism. He says: "The pragmatic method is primarily a method of settling metaphysical disputes that otherwise might be interminable."2 James follows this statement with the following suggestion with reference to its application... | |
| Roger Sherman Loomis - American prose literature - 1925 - 576 pages
...Prainulism. Copyright, by Longmans, Green and Company, publisher*. scholastic hair-splitting, but meant just plain honest English "round," the majority seemed...think that the distinction had assuaged the dispute. "GENTLEMAN"1 JAMES B. GREENOUGH AND GEORGE L. KITTREDGE THE adjective gentle (whence gentleman) is... | |
| Horace Standish Thayer - Philosophy - 1981 - 646 pages
...his Pragmatism, James argues for the pragmatic maxim in the same order as does Peirce. James says, "the pragmatic method is primarily a method of settling metaphysical disputes that otherwise might be interminable."8 But his evidence for the usefulness of the principle consists of references to practices... | |
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