...position more helpful if not more certain— that "Truth" is best understood as an event. For James, "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 verifying itself" (James 1907, original...

...sociologists, notably Addams. Undergirding settlement sociology's theory was the pragmatist principle that "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 itself, its veri-fication....

...that course of action is successful. In this sense, the true is a subset of the good. As James puts it, "Truth happens to an idea. It becomes true, is made true by events" (WWJ, 430). Understood in this way, James's conception of truth differs from the more traditional correspondence...

...in the James' instrumental sense, is 'made' as much as it is 'discovered' by the process of inquiry. 'Truth happens to an idea. It becomes true, is made true by events' and is distributed across the fund of knowledge by subjectivity." Pragmatic inquiry verifies, or validates...

...Paul K.Iee said art does not reproduce what can be seen. Art makes things visible. William James said truth happens to an idea. It becomes true, is made true by events. 19 Harry: Hubris and a lightning rod. Tower of Babel. High Class Rats in the Sewer Club. One day 1...

...experience" and which cannot be kept independent from the teller's own active participation. Or as James puts 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 itself, its veri-fication....

...James said, "The truth of an idea [like performance measurement] is not a stagnant property. . . . Truth happens to an idea. It becomes true, is made true by events."3 For pragmatism, there is no such thing as an idea that is good in theory but doesn't work...