pragmatism

2017-09-14 - The idea that right or not usefulness is requiredTruth 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.

• final

  • 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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