The Meaning of Truth
THE pivotal part of my book named Pragmatism is its account of the relation called 'truth' which may obtain between an idea (opinion, belief, statement, or what not) and its object. '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.'Where our ideas [do] not copy definitely their object, what does agreement with that object mean? ... Pragmatism asks its usual question. Grant an idea or belief to be true, it says, what concrete difference will its being true make in any one's…
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- ISBN: 978-3-7481-9090-5
- EAN: 9783748190905
- Produktnummer: 29830396
- Verlag: Books on Demand
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2019
- Seitenangabe: 228 S.
- Plattform: EPUB
- Masse: 455 KB
- Auflage: 1. Auflage
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