 | David Halliburton - Literary Criticism - 1997 - 428 pages
...indicates pretty well what pragmatism, in a general sense, is all about: "The pragmatic method ... is to try 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?" More than a predetermined technique or set... | |
 | Ruth Anna Putnam - Philosophy - 1997 - 430 pages
...spiritual? . . . disputes over such notions are unending. The pragmatic method in such cases is to try to interpret each notion by tracing its respective...consequences. What difference would it practically make to anyone if this notion rather than that were true? If no practical difference ... all dispute is idle"... | |
 | Mariana Valverde - Law - 1998 - 272 pages
...City, Minn., Hazelden, 1979); for the twelve step story, see 70-71. 15 "The pragmatic method ... is to try to interpret each notion by tracing its respective...if this notion rather than that notion were true? . . . Mr [Charles] Pierce, after pointing out that our beliefs are really rules for action, said that,... | |
 | Sandra B. Rosenthal, Carl R. Hausman, Douglas R. Anderson - Philosophy - 1999 - 284 pages
...nothing really at stake. James put it this way: "What difference would it practically make to anyone if this notion rather than that notion were true?...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" (PM,... | |
 | Winfried Fluck - Culture - 1999 - 404 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...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... | |
 | L.W. Henderson, R.S. Thuma - Medical - 2007 - 305 pages
...inquiry." (CS Peirce, 1887 & 1899) [1: pp 18 & 54] The pragmatic method is primarily a method .... 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 James - Philosophy - 2000 - 404 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... | |
 | José Trías Monge - Law - 2000 - 510 pages
...disputes over such notions are unending. The pragmatic method in such cases is to try to interpret each by tracing its respective practical consequences....this notion rather than that notion were true? If no difference whatever can be traced, then the alternatives mean practically the same thing, and all dispute... | |
 | Kurt Seelmann - Law - 2000 - 172 pages
...[. . .] The pragmatic method is to try to Interpret each notion by tracing its respective pratical consequences. What difference would it practically...this notion rather than that notion were true? If non practical difference whatever can be traced, the the alternatives mean practically the same thing,... | |
 | P.A. Keddy - Science - 2001 - 580 pages
...references to pragmatism. What practical difference would it make if one notion rather than another were true? "If no practical difference whatever can...practically the same thing, and all dispute is idle" (James. 1907, p. 10). The term is derived from the Greek word for action, the root of our English words... | |
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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... 
