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The Nature of Truth in Pragmatist Philosophy

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William James famously wrote: 'The true is the name of whatever proves itself to be good in the way of belief.'

Why this is interesting

You probably think a statement is true when it matches reality—but what if 'matching reality' is just another way of saying 'it works when we act on it'? Pragmatists turned truth from a static property into a dynamic process.