LECTURE 7.2: JAMES

Question 1

Who wrote “The Pragmatic Criterion of Truth”?

Answer 1

William James

Question 2

Where is William James from?

Answer 2

New York, USA; educated by tutors from private schools

Question 3

William James got an MD degree from?

Answer 3

Harvard University

Question 4

What did William James teach?

Answer 4

anatomy, physiology, psychology

Question 5

William James suffered from bouts of sever depression, died of _______ _______ at 68.

Answer 5

heart failure

Question 6

TRUTH → _____________ ____________ → Validation/Verification → Expediency → Cash Value

Answer 6

Good/Practical Consequences

Question 7

“The truth of an idea is not a stagnant property inherent in it. ______ happens to an idea.”

Answer 7

Truth

Question 8

“What do verification and validation pragmatically mean? They again signify certain __________ _________ of the verified and validated idea.”

Answer 8

practical consequences

Question 9

“The _____, to put it briefly, is only the expedient in the way of our thinking, just as the _____ is only the expedient in the way of our behaving.”

Answer 9

true ; right

Question 10

“Grant an idea to be true, what concrete difference will its being true make in anyone’s actual life? – What, in short, is the truth’s _____ _____ in experiential terms.”

Answer 10

cash value

Question 11

Criticism of Pragmatism

Answer 11

Vicious Relativism
- who will ultimately judge or from whose point of view (what is “good and practical” for whom?) are we going to look at?