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Pragmatism: A New Name for Some Old Ways of Thinking (New Thought Edition - Secret Library)

Book by William James · 5 quotes · Truth, Belief, Names

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Pragmatism: A New Name for Some Old Ways of Thinking (New Thought Edition - Secret Library) Quotes

“Truths emerge from facts, but they dip forward into facts again and add to them; which facts again create or reveal new truth (the word is indifferent) and so on indefinitely. The 'facts' themselves meanwhile are not true. They simply are. Truth is the function of the beliefs that start and terminate among them.”