Self-Quiz 3.7

According to James, the pragmatic method is to interpret each notion by

checking its correspondence with reality.

examining its practical consequences.

checking its coherence with other ideas.

accepting it as true.

James writes that the popular notion of truth is that

a true idea is pragmatically real.

a true idea does not exist.

a true idea is unknowable.

a true idea must copy its reality.

According to James, pragmatism asks

what concrete difference an idea's being true will make in one's life.

how the idea matches up to reality.

what other idea it coheres with.

why bother with truth.

James argues that the validation of an idea refers to

the idea's deductive quality.

the idea's practical consequences.

the idea's eternal truth value.

the knower's state of mind.

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