 | Daniel Sommer Robinson - Logic - 1924 - 424 pages
...James says that the pragmatic method is any one if this notion, rather than that notion, were truef If no practical difference whatever can be traced,...practically the same thing, and all dispute is idle. . . . Truth means that ideas (which themselves are but parts of our experience) become true just in... | |
 | Frank Johnston - Analytical jurisprudence - 1925 - 376 pages
...metaphysical disputes by William James can be equally as well used here. They may ask the question, "What difference would it practically make to any one if this notion of the origin and nature of law rather than another notion were true?" If no practical difference can... | |
 | Book collecting - 1908 - 1036 pages
...discussion by giving up the pretence of finality in truth, and simply asking, in regard to any question, "What difference would it practically make to any...if this notion rather than that notion were true?" Here a learned opponent, adopting a sort of slang which pragmatism does not disdain to use, has defined... | |
 | William Roscoe Thayer - Universities and colleges - 1908 - 854 pages
...Disputes over such notions," says Mr. James, " are unending. The Pragmatic method in such cases is to try to interpret each notion by tracing its respective...practically the same thing, and all dispute is idle." So Mr. James proceeds to apply the test — "what practical difference does it make " — to many of... | |
 | John Dewey - Philosophy - 1977 - 758 pages
...significance. James stated it as follows : ' ' What difference would it practically make to anyone if this notion rather than that notion were true?...mean practically the same thing, and all dispute is idle."2 Peirce formulated it with respect to substantive concepts rather than prepositional notions... | |
 | Charles S. Peirce - Philosophy - 1982 - 388 pages
...of the world; and disputes over such notions are unending. The pragmatic method in such cases is to try to interpret each notion by tracing its respective...idle. Whenever a dispute is serious, we ought to be able to show some practical difference that must follow from one side or the other's being right. A... | |
 | Douglas V. Verney - Political Science - 1986 - 480 pages
...reason."1" William James went even farther with the blunt assertion: "If no practicable difference can be traced, then the alternatives mean practically the same thing and all dispute is idle. Pragmatism represents . . . the empiricist attitude ... in a more radical and less objectionable form.... | |
 | William James - Literary Collections - 1988 - 1410 pages
...of the world; and disputes over such notions are unending. The pragmatic method in such cases is to try to interpret each notion by tracing its respective...idle. Whenever a dispute is serious, we ought to be able to show some practical difference that must follow from one side or the other's being right. A... | |
 | Michael Clark - Fiction - 1987 - 186 pages
...goes, and will always go forth every day" (1. 39). In James's words, the pragmatic approach attempts "to interpret each notion by tracing its respective...consequences. What difference would it practically make to anyone if this notion rather than that notion were true? If no practical difference whatever can be... | |
 | William A. Dyrness - Religion - 1989 - 184 pages
...the effects they produce. "What difference would it practically make to anyone," he wants to know, "if this notion rather than that notion were true?...practically the same thing, and all dispute is idle" (Pragmatism, 42). Grounding thinking in our practice leads to the suggestion (first made by Peirce)... | |
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The pragmatic method in such cases is to try to interpret each notion by tracing its respective practical consequences. What difference would it practically make to any one if this notion rather than that notion were true? If no practical difference whatever... 
