pragmatism
2017-09-14
The idea that right or not usefulness is required #Truth Theory
Charles Sanders Perth, William James are well known
Perth created it and James popularized it.
There is a subtle disconnect between these two ideas.
Nishio's Position
I don't care one way or the other if "what's useful is right" or not, because arguing about definitions of rightness isn't useful.
The reason why we use the binary variable "right/wrong" in the first place is because of the need to conserve thought due to the low computational power of the human hardware twin-shema model.
The "useful-is-right attitude" is especially useful when discussing the correctness of decisions.
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Chicago School (of economics)
John Dewey
George Herbert Mead
2023-12-20 merged from pragmatism
2017-08-13
pragmatism
Truth is useful for life.
There is no "eternal, universal truth in itself."
parse Peirce
1878 How to make our ideas clear?
Ideas are not copies of the external world.
Every conception has a practical meaning.
To "be" is to "serve the purpose of."
Ideas are plans of action Dewey
When the city acts on that conception, will the plan be realized and the purpose achieved?
The meaning of the ideas we have lies in the significance they have for the action.
1898 James., which became widely known because of his lectures.
Oswalt.
Poincaré
mill et al. utilitarianism.
Bergson.
Introduction to Philosophy p.73
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