The pragmatic concept of truth

Author

John Prescott Johnson, Kansas State Teachers College

Date of Award

5-1948

Document Type

Thesis

Degree Name

Master of Science (MS)

Department

Philosophy

Keywords

Truth, Pragmatism

Abstract

The pragmatic concept of truth is both a reaction from and an attack against the older epistemology of the absolutists. Since Plato's time truth had been defined in terms of the idea's copying a transcendental reality. When the pragmatists arrived they felt that this immediate correspondence of the idea was insufficient to establish the content and proof of the truth of the idea.

Comments

v, 77 leaves ; 28 cm. Bibliography: leaves 75-77.

Recommended Citation

Johnson, John Prescott, "The pragmatic concept of truth" (1948). Electronic Theses & Dissertations. 18.
https://digitalcommons.pittstate.edu/etd/18