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- Title
PRAGMATIC TRUTH: A TASK OF OURS THROUGH AN UNUSUAL COMPARISON.
- Authors
Terra Rodrigues, Cassiano
- Abstract
This paper is an attempt to make sense of James's conception of truth as a valid source of philosophical inspiration to Newton da Costa's paraconsistent notion of pragmatic truth, later called quasitruth. Typically, da Costa's quasi-truth is more easily understood as an attempt to give a mathematical interpretation of Peirce's convergent theory of truth. However, da Costa publicly recognized his own preference for James's writings rather than for Peirce's. From this initial motive, the paper proceeds to the difference between Peirce's and James's brands of pragmatism. From this, I address Peirce's conception of inquiry as truth-oriented. Next, I pass to James's account of truth and purposiveness. I then move to what James intended to reject, noting one divergence concerning Peirce's proposal. I then criticize formal definitions of truth, which leads to considering what it means to verify truths and why James's theory of truth, in spite of being not particularly mathematical, can still retain value for exact or quasi-exact scientists. The last section is a sort of incitement grounded upon contemporary art directed at anyone who pursues and values truth over lies.
- Subjects
BIBLE. James; PRAGMATISM
- Publication
William James Studies, 2023, Vol 18, Issue 1, p1
- ISSN
1933-8295
- Publication type
Article