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3. Truth / E. Pragmatic Truth / 1. Pragmatic Truth

2549	For James truth is "what it is better for us to believe" rather than a correct picture of reality [Rorty]
	Full Idea: Truth is, in James' phrase, "what it is better for us to believe", rather than "the accurate representation of reality".
	From: Richard Rorty (Philosophy and the Mirror of Nature [1980], Intro)