The Implications of Pragmatism

Charles Piers wrote in a way that brings him very close to the verificationism of logical positivism later in the 20th century. William James sees this implication and so says well, we mean by experience something much broader than philosophers typically mean. In this way James would say questions about religion, about God, about value, about beauty are all very very deeply important. They're not dismissable because you can't do a laboratory experiment. You have to ask yourself what would it be to believe that? And if believing in God gives you the right kind of psychological comportment towards the world so that you can get on with your life and not be depressed, that's part of the meaning of