Pragmatism: A New Name for Some Old Ways of Thinking
RM 20.92
ISBN:
9781911535560
Categories:
General Academics
File Size
0.74 MB
Format
epub
Language
English
Release Year
2016
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Author
William JamesSynopsis
It is astonishing to see how many philosophical disputes collapse into insignificance the moment you subject them to this simple test of tracing a concrete consequence. There can be no difference any-where that doesn't make a difference elsewhere—no difference in abstract truth that doesn't express itself in a difference in concrete fact and in conduct consequent upon that fact, imposed on somebody, somehow, somewhere and somewhen. The whole function of philosophy ought to be to find out what definite difference it will make to you and me, at definite instants of our life, if this world-formula or that world-formula be the true one.