No particular results then, so far, but only an attitude of orientation, is what the pragmatic method means. The attitude of looking away from first things, principles, 'categories,' supposed necessities; and of looking towards last things, fruits, consequences, facts.


Lecture II, What Pragmatism Means - Pragmatism: A New Name for Some Old Ways of Thinking (1907)

William James Quotes

No particular results then, so far, but only an attitude of orientation, is what the pragmatic method means. The attitude of looking away from first...

No particular results then, so far, but only an attitude of orientation, is what the pragmatic method means. The attitude of looking away from first...

No particular results then, so far, but only an attitude of orientation, is what the pragmatic method means. The attitude of looking away from first...

No particular results then, so far, but only an attitude of orientation, is what the pragmatic method means. The attitude of looking away from first...