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What Was James’s Theory of Truth?

2022· book-chapter· en· W4311405989 on OpenAlexaff
Tom Donaldson

Bibliographic record

VenueOxford University Press eBooks · 2022
Typebook-chapter
Languageen
FieldArts and Humanities
TopicPragmatism in Philosophy and Education
Canadian institutionsSimon Fraser University
Fundersnot available
KeywordsMetaphysicsPragmatismPhilosophyEpistemologyPragmatic theory of truthAppealPluralism (philosophy)Coherence theory of truthLaw

Abstract

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Abstract In Pragmatism, William James promised his readers a theory of truth. However, many of his readers (even those sympathetic with other parts of James’s work) have concluded that his “theory” was little more than a tangle of mistakes. This chapter begins with a presentation of the standard objections to James’s discussion. It is then argued that James did have a coherent theory of truth, which must be understood in combination with his metaphysics of pure experience. James’s pluralism about truth is emphasized. It is concluded that (while James’s metaphysical views will not appeal to the typical reader today) his theory of truth is not refuted by the standard objections.

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How this classification was reachedexpand

Full frame machine prediction

Teacher imitation

Not calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. The Gemma side is a direct model label for every work in the frame, read from the title-only record. The Codex side is a classifier learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and calibrated to design-weighted sample rates; fields without enough sample support carry no Codex call. Candidate is the union of the two sides; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels.

metaresearch head score (Codex)0.007
metaresearch head score (Gemma)0.007
Version: metacan-v3-hybrid-931329e0061cValidation status: machine_predicted_unvalidated
Candidate categoriesnone
Consensus categoriesnone
DomainCandidate signal: none · Consensus signal: none
Study designCandidate signal: Theoretical or conceptual · Consensus signal: Theoretical or conceptual
GenreCandidate signal: Other · Consensus signal: Other
Teacher disagreement score0.009
Threshold uncertainty score0.052

Distilled classifier scores by category (both heads)

CategoryCodexGemma
Metaresearch0.0070.007
Meta-epidemiology (narrow)0.0000.000
Meta-epidemiology (broad)0.0010.001
Bibliometrics0.0020.001
Science and technology studies0.0040.031
Scholarly communication0.0090.011
Open science0.0010.002
Research integrity0.0040.007
Insufficient payload (model declined to judge)0.0040.001

Machine scores (provisional)

The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.

Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.

Opus teacher head0.045
GPT teacher head0.202
Teacher spread0.157 · how far apart the two teachers sit on this one work
Validation statusscore_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from it

Classification

machine, unvalidated

Machine predicted; a candidate call from one source (direct Gemma or distilled Codex), not a consensus.

The models applied no category: nothing in the taxonomy fit this work.
Study designTheoretical or conceptual
Domainnot available
GenreOther

How this classification was reached, model by model and score by score, is at the end of the page under "How this classification was reached".

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