While visiting my parents over Christmas I attended worship services as the local ward – the ward I “grew up” in. It was a great experience for many reasons. I had a chance to see some close friends from High School and catch up with other Church members who I had not seen for many [...]
As mentioned in a previous post, Pragmatism is, in large part, a method to identify truths. However, pragmatism does not seek after abstract truths but rather, instrumental truths. That is to say truths, which in practice, allow human beings to negotiate their varied, and often contradictory, experiences. Pragmatism holds that our “ideas (which are but [...]
Further “the whole function of philosophy ought to be to find out what definite difference it will make to you and me, and definite instants of our life, if this world-formula or that world-formula be the true one.” Pragmatism is “both more radical” and “less objectionable” than empiricism as “a pragmatist turns his back resolutely and once for all upon a lot of inveterate habits dear to professional philosophers” and “turns away from abstraction and insufficiency, from verbal solutions, from bad a priori reasons, from fixed principles, closed systems and pretended absolutes and origins.”
