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| William James - 1907 - 360 Seiten
...anecdote because it is a peculiarly simple example of what I wish now to speak of as the pragmatic method. The pragmatic method is primarily a method of settling...notions are unending. The pragmatic method in / such casesjs_tp_tr^jtojnterpret. each notion by- * tracing^ its respective practical consequences. What... | |
| William James - 1907 - 336 Seiten
...jrzagmailit) nietftSiT. The prag-"' matic method is primarily a method of settling metaphys icaToTSputes that otherwise might be interminable. Is the world...such notions are unending. The pragmatic method in t/ such cases isjto try to interpret each notion by ... tracing its respective practical consequences.... | |
| William James - 1907 - 336 Seiten
...pragmatic method is primarily a method of settling metaphysical disputes that otherwise might b_e_ . interminable. Is the world one or many ? — fated...over such notions are unending. The pragmatic method in\y' such casesjs_ to > try .toJnterpreJLeachjiption by_ 'F tracing its respective practical consequences... | |
| William James - 1907 - 342 Seiten
...anecdote because it is a peculiarly simple example of what I wish now to speak of as the pragmatic method. The pragmatic method is primarily a method of settling metaphysical disputes that otherwise might Jje interminable. Is the world one or many ? — fated or free ? — material or spiritual ? — here... | |
| John Watson - 1907 - 524 Seiten
...either do or do not give satisfaction to our whole nature. The pragmatic method, as thus understood, is " primarily a method of settling metaphysical disputes that otherwise might be interminable."1 At the same time it "does not stand for any special results. It is a method only."*... | |
| 1908 - 940 Seiten
...evolution and picture to ourselves the primeval nebula itself. The same holds of metaphysical disputes. " Is the world one or many ? — fated or free ? — material or spiritual ? " What about " substance," what about " soul," what about " God " ? The first thing b to get a clear... | |
| 1911 - 528 Seiten
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| 1910 - 666 Seiten
...with it in any other than its primary sense, this paper would be interminable. Take the questions, — is the world one or many ?— fated or free ? — material or spiritual ? These questions involve wide difference of opinion, and the pragmatic method seeks to interpret them... | |
| John Angus MacVannel - 1912 - 234 Seiten
...functional view of mind.) (6) 7/5 motor theory of truth. — In his book Pragmatism Professor James says: "The pragmatic method is primarily a method of settling...metaphysical disputes that otherwise might be interminable. . . . The pragmatic method in such cases is to try to interpret each notion by tracing its respective... | |
| Henri Johan Frans Willem Brugmans - 1913 - 216 Seiten
...only determine what conduct it is fitted to produce: that conduct is for us its sole significance 1). The pragmatic method is primarily a method of settling...metaphysical disputes that otherwise might be interminable. The pragmatic method in such cases is to try to interpret each notion by tracing its respective practical... | |
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