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The Meaning of Truth

Author
William James
Language
English
Length
160 pages
ISBN
9781787360952
Published
2 January 2020
Imprint
The Big Nest
  • william james
  • american psychology
  • psychology
  • pragmatism
  • philosophy
  • morality
  • society
  • knowledge
  • discovery thought
  • realisation

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A sequel to Pragmatism this book continues and advances ideas surrounding concepts of truth, opinion, belief, statement. 'Truth,' I there say, 'is a property of certain of our ideas. It means their agreement, as falsity means their disagreement, with reality. Pragmatists and intellectualists both accept this definition as a matter of course.

Author

William James (1842–1910) was an American philosopher and psychologist whose Principles of Psychology helped found psychology as a modern science and whose essays on belief, habit, and religious experience reshaped philosophy in the English-speaking world. Brother of the novelist Henry James, he wrote with unusual clarity about how the mind works and how truth is tested in experience.

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