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Full Idea
Truth for us is simply a collective name for verification-processes, just as 'health' is a name for other processes in life.
Gist of Idea
Truth is just a name for verification-processes
Source
William James (Pragmatism - eight lectures [1907], Lec 6)
Book Ref
James,William: 'Pragmatism - eight lectures' [Dover 1995], p.84
A Reaction
So the slogan is 'truth is success in belief'? Suicide and racist genocide can be 'successful'. I would have thought that truth was the end of a process, rather than the process itself.
| 21248 | If the existence of truth is denied, the 'Truth does not exist' must be true! [Aquinas] |
| 4508 | The truth is what gives us the minimum of spiritual effort, and avoids the exhaustion of lying [Nietzsche] |
| 18986 | Truth is just a name for verification-processes [James] |
| 15569 | Heidegger says truth is historical, and never absolute [Heidegger, by Polt] |
| 19636 | Truth is just an error insufficiently experienced [Cioran] |
| 19642 | Eventually every 'truth' is guaranteed by the police [Cioran] |
| 15042 | Truth doesn't arise from solitary freedom, but from societies with constraints [Foucault] |
| 4756 | Derrida says that all truth-talk is merely metaphor [Derrida, by Engel] |
| 21877 | True thoughts are inaccessible, in the subconscious, prior to speech or writing [Derrida] |
| 4726 | Rorty seems to view truth as simply being able to hold one's view against all comers [Rorty, by O'Grady] |
| 10820 | In the early 1930s many philosophers thought truth was not scientific [Field,H] |