"It is absolutely the only philosophy with no humbug in it," an
exhilarated William James wrote to a friend early in 1907. And
later that year, after finishing the proofs of his "little book,"
he wrote to his brother Henry: "I shouldn't be surprised if ten
years hence it should be rated as 'epoch-making, ' for of the
definitive triumph of that general way of thinking I can entertain
no doubt whatever--I believe it to be something quite like the
protestant reformation."
Both the acclaim and outcry that greeted "Pragmatism: A New Name
for Some Old Ways of Thinking" helped to affirm James's conviction.
For it was in "Pragmatism" that he confronted older philosophic
methods with the "pragmatic" method, demanding that ideas be tested
by their relation to life and their effects in experience. James's
reasoning and conclusions in "Pragmatism" have exerted a profound
influence on philosophy in this century, and the book remains a
landmark.
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