...turns towards concreteness and adequacy, towards facts, towards action and towards power. . . . That means the open air and possibilities of nature as...artificiality and the pretence of finality in truth.' And Truth, to quote again from a former passage, can just now be vividly observed ' in the making '...

...rrpay/m (pragma), action, from which our word practice comes. As a system, it means " the empiricist temper regnant and the rationalist temper sincerely...artificiality and the pretence of finality in truth." It does not stand for any special results, but is " a method only." And what is the pragmatic method?...

...concreteness and adequacy, towards facts, towards action and towards power. That means the empiricist temper regnant and the rationalist temper sincerely...truth. At the same time it does not stand for any special^results^ It is a method only. But the general triumph of that method would mean an enormous...

...towards power. That means the em-l'/ piricist temper regnant and the rationalist temper sincerely jjiyeji .up. It means the open' air and possibilities of nature,...truth. At the same time it does not stand for any n , special results j' It is a niethod_only.\ But the ^3 general triumph of that method would mean...

...towards/concrete- 1 ness and adequacy, towardsjacts, towards action_and towards power:) That means the ei piricist temper regnant and the rationalist temper sincerely...against] dogma, artificiality, and the pretence of finalitj in truth. At the same time it does not stand for any special results. It is a method only....

...understood, is " primarily a method of settling metaphysical disputes that otherwise might be interminable."1 At the same time it "does not stand for any special results. It is a method only."* After maintaining this guarded attitude for a number of years, Professor James seems at last to have...

...— those who sit on the bleachers and do the rooting. Pragmatism, according to Professor James, " does not stand for any special results. It is a method only" (p. 51). What then is the pragmatic method? It is "primarily a method of settling metav physical disputes...

...concreteness and adequacy, towards farts, towards action and towards power. That means the empiricist temper regnant and the rationalist temper sincerely...artificiality, and the pretence of finality in truth " (P- 50The temper of mind here described is one with which I, for my part, in the main cordially sympathise....

...elucidate the question of a future life by taking a pol1. William James claims for the pragmatist temper 'the open air and possibilities of nature, as against...artificiality, and the pretence of finality in truth.' A thing which simply is true, whether you like it or not, is to him as hateful as a Russian autocracy."...

...That means the empiricist temper regnant, and the rationalist temper sincerely given up. l£ jneans the open air and possibilities of nature, as against dogma, artificiality. and the pretence of Ifiiality in truth."2 J ~Pragmatism unstiffens all our theories, limbers them up, and sets each one...