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Peirce What Pragmatism Is [DOC]
Peirce What Pragmatism Is [DOC]

... c. “when my window was opened, because of the truth that stuffy air is malsain, a physical effort was brought into existence by the efficiency of a general and non-existent truth” (114) [Does he mean that truths do not really exist?] ...
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... • You cannot know something unless you truly believe it. • Belief alone isn’t ___________________ for knowledge - you can’t believe something that is false either. ...
Bertrand Russell (1872
Bertrand Russell (1872

... non-contradiction); but the laws of logic “themselves cannot be established by this [the coherence] test.” – “For the above two reasons, coherence cannot be accepted as giving the meaning of truth, though it is often a most important test of truth after a certain amount of truth has become known.” W ...
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Pragmatic theory of truth

A pragmatic theory of truth is a theory of truth within the philosophies of pragmatism and pragmaticism. Pragmatic theories of truth were first posited by Charles Sanders Peirce, William James, and John Dewey. The common features of these theories are a reliance on the pragmatic maxim as a means of clarifying the meanings of difficult concepts such as truth; and an emphasis on the fact that belief, certainty, knowledge, or truth is the result of an inquiry.
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