PHIL-240 Chapter Notes - Chapter 7: Western Philosophy, Rationality, Radical Empiricism
3 Feb 2018
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But a conception, he declared, is a teleological instrument. It is a partial aspect of a thing which for our purpose we regard as its essential aspect, as the representative of the entire thing (1879, p. 319). Th e idea that the meanings of things are to be understood as directive (teleological) and that their working is a matter of believing the conception and acting on it points toward what would become the famous. The ultimate test for us of what a truth means is indeed the conduct it dictates or inspires . Instead of establishing an independent reality to provide meaning or some set of transcendent ideals, james proposed a view in which purpose, action, ideas and the. Real intersect to produce truth and the reality of lived experience. It is a way of engaging questions and problems from the perspective of lived experience and realizing that the ideas that frame experience anticipate and direct action.
