 | Nicholas Murray Butler, Frank Pierrepont Graves, William McAndrew - 1910 - Страниц: 562
...exprest in the Preface to the present volume, where the author gives his definition of truth (p. vii), "The true, to put it very briefly, is only the expedient in the way of our think1ng, just as the right is only the expedient in the way of our behaving." This seems an exceedingly... | |
 | William James - 1907 - Страниц: 336
...the root of the whole matter, and the condition of there being any habit to exist in the intervals. ' The true,' to put it very briefly, is only the expedient...thinking, just as 'the right ' is only the expedient in the way of our behaving. Expedient in almost anyfashion; and expedient in the long run and on the whole... | |
 | William James - 1907 - Страниц: 338
...the root of the whole matter, and the condition of there being any habit to exist in the intervals. ' The true,' to put it very briefly, is only the expedient...thinking, just as 'the right' is only the expedient in the way of our behaving. Expedient in almost any fashion; and expedient in the long run and on the... | |
 | 1907 - Страниц: 1012
...the root of the whole matter, and the condition of there being any habit to exist in the intervals. 'The true,' to put it very briefly, is only the expedient...thinking, just as 'the right' is only the expedient in the way of our behaving. Expedient in almost any fashion ; and expedient in the long run and on the... | |
 | Jacob Gould Schurman, James Edwin Creighton, Frank Thilly, Gustavus Watts Cunningham - 1907 - Страниц: 716
...another formulation which Professor James gives of his conception of truth. " ' The true,'' to put it briefly, is only the expedient in the way of our thinking, just as ' the right ' is only the expedient in the way of our behaving" (p. 222; italics the author's). The implication here, and throughout the discussion,... | |
 | William James - 1907 - Страниц: 342
...any habit to exist in the intervals. 'ThetrueSjo put it very briefly, is only the expedjfn±in. titf. way of our thinking, just as ^ 'the right ' is only the expedient in the way of our behaving. Expedient in almost any f askion ; and expedient in the long run and on the... | |
 | 1908 - Страниц: 624
...this vital question is dealt with, take the following passage from Mr. James's recent volume : " ' The true, ' to put it very briefly, is only the expedient...thinking, just as ' the right ' is only the expedient in the way of our behaving. Expedient in almost any fashion ; and expedient in the long run and on the... | |
 | Jacob Gould Schurman, James Edwin Creighton, Frank Thilly, Gustavus Watts Cunningham - 1908 - Страниц: 734
...reach a solution which fits each concrete situation. Professor James has given us a working formula : " The true, to put it very briefly, is only the expedient...thinking, just as the right is only the expedient in the way of our behaving." 1 The expedient as such, however, often suggests a false lead. We cannot... | |
 | Susan Elizabeth Blow - 1908 - Страниц: 430
...from truths in the plural, a mere useful summarizing phrase like the Latin language, or the law." 4 " The true, to put it very briefly, is only the expedient...thinking, just as ' the right ' is only the expedient in the way of our behaving." 5 With the dissolution of the right and the true into the expedient the accord... | |
 | 1908 - Страниц: 746
...lower level, and thus to weaken his theistic position, when he says in his Lectures, " 'The true' . . . is only the expedient in the way of our thinking just as 'the right' is only the expedient in the way of our behaving" (p. 222). Utilitarianism in epistemology and in ethics naturally go together,... | |
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The true,' to put it very briefly, is only the expedient in the way of our thinking, just as 'the right' is only the expedient in the way of our behaving. 
