 | 1926 - 682 pages
...those 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
...being in 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...an idea. It becomes true, is made true by events" (p. vi). Such a definition brings to the foreground the element of contingency which, according to... | |
 | 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...becomes true, is made true by events. Its validity is, in fact. an event. a process, the process, namely, of its verifying itself — its verification. Its... | |
 | William James - 1907 - 336 pages
...is 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...idea. It becomes true, is made true by events. Its verity is in fact an event, a process: the process namely of its verifying itself, its veri-fication.... | |
 | William James - 1907 - 336 pages
...is 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...idea. It becomes true, is made true by events. Its verify"" is in fact an event, a process: the process namely of its verifying itself, its veri-fication.... | |
 | William James - 1907 - 336 pages
...meaning of truth, for it is all that truth is known-as. This thesis is what I have to defend. The ' t" truth of an idea is not a stagnant property inherent...idea. It < becomes true, is made true by events. Its verity is in fact an event, a process: the process namely of its verifying itself, its ven-fication.... | |
 | William James - 1907 - 336 pages
...is 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
...is 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... | |
 | 1907 - 1012 pages
...being consistent with it— for remember, truth is not verifiability, but the process of verification. "Truth happens to an idea. It becomes true, is made true by events." At the time when John had the thought about Peter, the thought was neither true nor false, for the... | |
 | Paul Carus - 1908 - 786 pages
...for 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...idea. It becomes true, is made true by events. Its verity is in fact an event, a process : the process namely of its verifying itself, its veri-fication.... | |
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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. 
