The Meaning of Truth
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Do not these distinctions rightly relieve me from embarrassment? And
don't you think it might help you to make them yourself?
Anti-Prag.:--Never!--so avaunt with your abominable hair-splitting
and sophistry! Truth is truth; and never will I degrade it by
identifying it with low pragmatic particulars in the way you
propose.
Prag.:--Well, my dear antagonist, I hardly hoped to convert an
eminent intellectualist and logician like you; so enjoy, as long as
you live, your own ineffable conception. Perhaps the rising
generation will grow up more accustomed than you are to that
concrete and empirical interpretation of terms in which the
pragmatic method consists. Perhaps they may then wonder how so
harmless and natural an account of truth as mine could have found
such difficulty in entering the minds of men far more intelligent
than I can ever hope to become, but wedded by education and
tradition to the abstractionist manner of thought.
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