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Pragmatism

Pragmatism

James, William

Hardcover

Philosophy

ISBN10: 1434117588
ISBN13: 9781434117588
Publisher: Classic Books Lib
Published: Jul 30 2008
Pages: 156
Weight: 0.88
Height: 0.50 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
The pragmatic method is primarily a method of settling metaphysical disputes that otherwise might be interminable. Is the world one or many?-fated or free?-material or spiritual?-here are notions either of which may or may not hold good 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 practical 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 traced, then the alternatives mean practically the same thing, and all dispute is 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. Newly designed and typeset by Waking Lion Press.

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