Philosophy by the Book

JAMES, William (1842 - 1910)
The Meaning of Truth.
London: Longmans, Green & Co, 1909.
Private library of Professor John Anderson

This work presents, among much else, the pragmatic theory of truth: that truth consists in the various kinds of utility or usefulness of some of our beliefs. This was the stimulant for an exchange on the topic with Bertrand Russell in the pages of Mind.