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The Meaning of Truth

by William James (1842–1910)

22 chapters, about 56,000 words. The text is in the public domain in the United States and comes from Project Gutenberg.

Chapters

1. PREFACE 2,700 words
2. I 8,700 words
3. II 1,500 words
4. III 9,300 words
5. THE RELATION BETWEEN KNOWER AND KNOWN 3,300 words
6. THE ESSENCE OF HUMANISM 1,000 words
7. II 500 words
8. III 600 words
9. IV 400 words
10. A WORD MORE ABOUT TRUTH 3,300 words
11. II 1,300 words
12. I 1,200 words
13. II 2,100 words
14. VIII 5,600 words
15. EIGHTH MISUNDERSTANDING: PRAGMATISM IS SHUT UP TO SOLIPSISM. 900 words
16. IX 700 words
17. X 800 words
18. XI 700 words
19. XII 2,800 words
20. ABSTRACTIONISM AND 'RELATIVISMUS' 4,700 words
21. TWO ENGLISH CRITICS 2,400 words
22. A DIALOGUE 1,900 words

Ideas discussed in this book

• Agnosticism
• Cognition
• Feeling
• Humanism
• Pragmatism
• Solipsism
• Truth

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