In answering these questions the pragmatists are more analytic and painstaking, the intellectualists more offhand and irreflective.
Other pragmatists may reach more positive beliefs about the sensible core of reality.
Pragmatists and intellectualists both accept this definition as a matter of course.
You pragmatists put the cart before the horse in making truth's being reside in verification-processes.
If the anti-pragmatists have any other meaning, let them for heaven's sake reveal it, let them grant us access to it!
And the pragmatists answer, "Man said, let there be a God, and there was one.
Even pragmatists who say that utility is before truth, labor to prove that it is true that utility is before truth.
Forget that the only end of action is to bring about an approximation to the complete inclusive consciousness; make, as the pragmatists do, consciousness a means to action, and one form of external activity is just as good as another.
When you realize that, you will perceive that the pragmatists are only half-way over.
But the reader should be warned that no two pragmatists can be got to agree upon any definition of pragmatism, and that the opponents of pragmatism differ still more widely in their conception of it.
But when I heard of the pragmatists I knew that I was no longer alone in the world.
Inborn rationalists and inbornpragmatists will never convert each other.
This, I beg to point out, is a very different position from that of Mr. Schiller and the pragmatists of to-day.
The difference is that when the pragmatists speak of truth, they mean exclusively some thing about the ideas, namely their workableness; whereas when anti-pragmatists speak of truth they seem most often to mean something about the objects.
It is but a claim to the right to call certain ideas true anyhow; and this is what I meant above by saying that the anti-pragmatists offer us no real alternative, and that our account is literally the only positive theory extant.
They also find it impossible to imagine what makes the anti-pragmatists' dogmatic 'ipse dixit' assurance of reality more credible than the pragmatists conviction based on concrete verifications.
Pragmatists can leave the question of identity open; but they cannot do without the wider knower any more than they can do without the reality, if they want to prove a case of knowing.
The notion of such final realities, knowledge of which would be absolute truth, is an outgrowth of our cognitive experience from which neither pragmatists nor anti-pragmatists escape.
Empiricists think that truth in general is distilled from single men's beliefs; and the so-called pragmatists 'go them one better' by trying to define what it consists in when it comes.
The anti-pragmatists ought in consistency to stand up for the criminal's view of the case, treat the judge as the latter's logical enemy, and bar out the other conditions as so much inessential psychological stuff.
But if it all reverts to 'the will to believe,' pragmatistshave that privilege as well as their critics.
It proposes to have what the pragmatists call "workings.
Moreover (and upon this all the pragmatists lay great stress), truth is for us a temporal affair.
In brief, an opinion has what thepragmatists love to call its "workings.
He therefore accepts its rules, and has his interests in what the pragmatists call "the concrete situation.
And unless such a life above our individual level is real, our human efforts have no sense whatever, and chaos drowns out the meaning of the pragmatists and of the idealists alike.
But it is only to the first sort of theory that pragmatism can be reasonably applied; to apply it also to the second would be to retire into that extreme subjectivism which the leading pragmatists have so hotly disclaimed.
It is refreshing and reassuring, after the confused, melodramatic ways of philosophising to which the idealists and the pragmatists have accustomed us, to breathe again the crisp air of scholastic common sense.
The tenderness which the pragmatists feel for life in general, and especially for an accelerated modern life, has doubtless contributed to this revulsion, but the speculative consideration of the immediate might have led to it independently.
Among the pragmatists the worship of power is also optimistic, but it is not to logic that power is attributed.
For instance, pragmatistsmight protest against the accusation that "they never think about the facts upon which scientific theories are based," for they lay a great emphasis on facts.
There are obvious reasons why these two kinds of cognitions, so interesting to Mr. Russell, are not felt by pragmatists to constitute exceptions worth considering.
I have never been able to discover whether, by that perception of fact which is not "truth" but fact itself, pragmatists meant each human apprehension taken singly, or the whole series of these apprehensions.
When the conviction first dawned upon pragmatists that there was no absolute or eternal truth, what they evidently were thinking of was that it is folly, in this changing world, to pledge oneself to any final and inflexible creed.
A point of fundamental importance, about which pragmatists have been far from clear, and perhaps not in agreement with one another, is the sense in which their psychology is to be taken.
The psychologism with which the pragmatists started seems to be passing in this way, in the very effort to formulate it pragmatically, into something which, whatever it may be, is certainly not psychologism.
It is one of the approaches to the movement; yet we may safely regard the ancestral transcendentalism of the pragmatists as something which they have turned their back upon, and mean to disown.
Le Roy and the other Christian pragmatists have returned to the Nominalism of Duns Scotus.
The universe which is interpreted to us by our understanding is not unreal, nor are its laws pliant to our wills, as the pragmatists do vainly talk.
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