 | 1926 - 682 pages
...that we can assimilate, validate, corroborate, and verify. False ideas are those that we cannot. The truth of an idea is not a stagnant property inherent in it. Truth happens to an idea." In other words, if the idea works it is true. Truth is a synonym for any idea that will get some result... | |
 | Nicholas Murray Butler, Frank Pierrepont Graves, William McAndrew - 1910 - 562 pages
...any sense an inherent quality of an idea itself. He says, for instance, in this connection : " The truth of an idea is not a stagnant property inherent...in it. Truth happens to an idea. It becomes true, is made true by events" (p. vi). Such a definition brings to the foreground the element of contingency... | |
 | 1912 - 620 pages
...those which we can assimilate, validate, corroborate, and verify; false ideas are those we can not. The truth of an idea is not a stagnant property inherent...in it. Truth happens to an idea; it becomes true, is made true by events. Its validity is, in fact. an event. a process, the process, namely, of its... | |
 | William James - 1907 - 336 pages
...the meaning of truth, for it is all that truth is known-as. This thesis is what I have to defend. The truth of an idea is not a stagnant property inherent...in it. Truth happens to an idea. It becomes true, is made true by events. Its verity is in fact an event, a process: the process namely of its verifying... | |
 | 1907 - 1012 pages
...the meaning of truth, for it is all that truth is known as. This thesis is what I have to defend. The truth of an idea is not a stagnant property inherent...in it. Truth happens to an idea. It becomes true, is made true by events. Its verity is in fact an event, a process, the process, namely, of its verifying... | |
 | William James - 1907 - 336 pages
...the meaning of truth, for it is all that truth is known-as. This thesis is what I have to defend. The truth of an idea is not a stagnant property. inherent...in it. Truth happens to an idea. It becomes true, is made true by events. Its verify"" is in fact an event, a process: the process namely of its verifying... | |
 | William James - 1907 - 336 pages
...the meaning of truth, for it is all that truth is known-as. This thesis is what I have to defend. The truth of an idea is not a stagnant property inherent in it. (Truth happens to_an_idea. It becomes true, is made true by events. Its verity is in fact an event, £_p_rocess :)the... | |
 | William James - 1907 - 360 pages
...the meaning of truth, for it is all that truth is known-as. This thesis is what I have to defend. The truth of an idea is not a stagnant property inherent in it. Tnithjmgffgna to an idea. It becomes true, is made true by events. Its verity is uPfact an pv"*, g... | |
 | Paul Carus - 1908 - 786 pages
...according to Professor James, ideas are not true or untrue, they become true. He says (p. 201): "The truth of an idea is not a stagnant property inherent...in it. Truth happens to an idea. It becomes true, is made true by events. Its verity is in fact an event, a process : the process namely of its verifying... | |
 | Albert Schinz - 1909 - 328 pages
...it is " expedient." " The 1 Originally written in Italian. I have seen only the English translation. truth of an idea is not a stagnant property inherent...in it. Truth happens to an idea. It becomes true, is made true by events. Its verity is in fact an event, a process : the process, namely, of its verifying... | |
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The truth of an idea is not a stagnant property inherent in it. Truth happens to an idea. It becomes true, is made true by events. 
