New PDF release: The Meaning of Truth (Great Books in Philosophy)

By William James

Preeminent American thinker and educator John Dewey (1859-1952) rejected Hegelian idealism for the pragmatism of William James.

In this number of casual, hugely readable essays, initially released among 1897 and 1909, Dewey articulates his now vintage philosophical strategies of information and fact and the character of truth. the following Dewey introduces his clinical process and makes use of severe intelligence to reject the normal methods of viewing philosophical discourse. wisdom can't be divorced from adventure; it's progressively bought via interplay with nature. Philosophy, for this reason, should be considered as itself a mode of data and never as a repository of disembodied, pre-existing absolute truths.

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