Favorites Quote's
Author
Topic's
Blog
True Is The Name For Whatever Idea Starts The Verification Process, Useful Is The Name For Its Completed Function In Experience
-William James
Please Wait....
Translating....
Select Image
Download as Image
English
Spanish
French
German
Hindi
Chinese
True Is The Name For Whatever Idea
William James
True Is The Name For Whatever Idea Starts The Verification Process, Useful Is The Name For Its Completed Function In Experience
Views: 1
Topic
Truth
Names
Ideas
More From William James
What Do Believers In The Absolute Mean By Saving That Their Belief Affords Them Comfort? They Mean That Since In The Absolute Finite Evil Is ‘overruled’ Already, We May, Therefore, Whenever We Wish, Treat The Temporal As If It Were Potentially The Eternal, Be Sure That We Can Trust Its Outcome, And, Without Sin, Dismiss Our Fear And Drop The Worry Of Our Finite Responsibility. In Short, They Mean That We Have A Right Ever And Anon To Take A Moral Holiday, To Let The World Wag In Its Own Way, Feeling That Its Issues Are In Better Hands Than Ours And Are None Of Our Business.
Holiday
Mean
Responsibility
It Is Not Probable That The Reader Will Be Satisfied With Any Of These Solutions, And Contemporary Philosophers, Even Rationalistically Minded Ones, Have On The Whole Agreed That No One Has Intelligibly Banished The Mystery Of Fact.
Philosophy
Facts
Philosopher
Habit Is A Second Nature, Or Rather, It Is 'ten Times Nature'.
Inspirational
Educational
Philosophy
Regarding Mutual Tolerance: It Is Negative In One Sense, But Positive In Another. It Absolutely Forbids Us To Be Forward In Pronouncing On The Meaninglessness Of Forms Of Existence Other Than Our Own; And It Commands Us To Tolerate, Respect, And Indulge Those Whom We See Harmlessly Interested And Happy In Their Own Ways, However Unintelligible These May Be To Us. Hands Off.
Happiness
Respect
Hands
Pragmatism Asks Its Usual Question. "grant An Idea Or Belief To Be True," It Says, "what Concrete Difference Will Its Being True Make In Anyone's Actual Life? How Will The Truth Be Realized? What Experiences Will Be Different From Those Which Would Obtain If The Belief Were False? What, In Short, Is The Truth's Cash-value In Experiential Terms?
Truth
Ideas
Differences
Trending Author
David Packard
Algernon Sidney
Daniel Craig
George Galloway
Alfred Noyes
Stephen Baldwin
Quotes by Topics
Action
Attention
Believe
Blessing
Desire
Dream
Ends
Fear
Fun
God
Grief
Hard Work
Hate
Life
Leave Me Alone
Men
Mind
Moving
Opportunity
Philosophy
Positive
Religious
Strong
Thinking
Want
Category