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Pragmatism

In Our Time: Philosophy

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What Is True Within Scientific Inquiry

Truth is what we find at the ideal in point ofa science, thas as how he put it. For him, there can be a distinction between what seems to be true and what is actually true our actual mode inquiry. So he retains this idea that truth is, in principle, accessible. It says it were internal to our modes of inquiry, but internall at the idealized end. Whereas james and dewey were much more a, as it were, boldly historicis,. They couldn't maintain that distinction betweenat what seems toBe true within competent inquiry, and what, in fact, is true. And that is a problem. I just wa almost a nip

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