The pragmatic theory of truth as developed by Peirce, James, and DeweyGeyer, Denton Loring
Philosophy
The pragmatic theory of truth as developed by Peirce, James, and Dewey
Geyer, Denton Loring
Dewey, John, 1859-1952; James, William, 1842-1910; Peirce, Charles S. (Charles Sanders), 1839-1914; Pragmatism
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VITA.
The writer was born in 1884 at Pomeroy, Ohio, and received his earlier
education in the country schools near that city. His college
preparatory work was done in the high school of Roswell, New Mexico,
from which he was graduated in 1906. He then entered immediately the
University of Wisconsin, and from this institution received the
Bachelor's degree in 1910 and the Master's degree in 1911. From 1911
to 1914, while acting as fellow or as assistant, he studied in the
graduate school of the University of Illinois.
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JAMES' EXPOSITION OF PEIRCE. (in the Table of Contents)
(Removed 's in JAMES'S to match the title of Section in
Chapter 2, which is consistent with author's usage throughout)
consider the doctrine of transubstantiation
(transubstantiation was transsubstantiation)
true in their main experiential predictions
(experiential was experiental)
multiply incontestable results
(incontestable was incontestible)
false belief (belief in fiction)".
(. was ,)
and then only provisionally;
(then was when)
towards the close of
(the was th)
cannot be used together
(together was togethehr)
if one can define accurately all
(accurately was acurately)
or false?' Thus does Locke
(missing closing quote added)
only an image in the mind
(mind was mand)
try so hard to defend
(so was to)
In Footnote 12, the word pages was pagges
Yet the smell is not cognitional
(smell is was small was)
Let us suppose that the smell occurs
(smell was small)
thus account for the cases where meanings
(cases was cses)
their immediate occurrence as
(occurrence was occurence)
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