Pragmatism (William James, 1907) Index generated by IndexStudio from the archive.org scan (https://archive.org/details/pragmatismnewnam00jame), unedited. Page numbers refer to the printed pages of that edition. A Pluralistic Universe, 291 A. E. Taylor, 227, 244 Abel, 214 Absolutism, 18–19, 293 Abstraction, 9, 35, 51, 72, 127–128, 211–212, 229, 265 Acquaintance, 135, 158 Actuality, 283–284 Adaptation, 194, 213 Aesthetic Union, 143 Alexandre Bellanger, 130 All-Knower, 146 Ampère, 186 Analytical Geometry, 171 Anglo-Hegelian School, 17 Ante Rem, 220 Antediluvian Monsters, 215 Archimedes, 193 Aristotelian Logic, 223 Arthur Balfour, 104 Atheism, 299 Atman, 274 Atoms, 99, 101, 139, 185, 189, 191–192, 216 Baruch Spinoza, 37 Beauty, 229 Beliefs, 59–60, 76, 168, 202, 242 action, 46 Berkeley, 182 Bernard Bosanquet, 17 Bodies, 173, 180 Bodily Actions, 157 Book of Genesis, 214 Book of Job, 142 Bowne, 18 Bradley, 142 Buddhism, 292 C. a. Strong, 250 Caesar, 254 Cain, 214 Categorical Imperative, 200 Categories, 173, 183, 288 Causality, 60, 122, 138, 157, 173, 180, 209 Chance, 160 Charles Darwin, 111, 182 Charles Peirce, 46–47 Chauncey Wright, 263 Cholera Germ, 160 Christian Science, 150 Church, 261 Circumstantial Evidence, 207 City of God, 24 Clerk-Maxwell, 197, 217 Clock, 186, 199, 206 Common Law, 240 Common Science, 192 Common Sense, 66, 162, 167, 170, 188, 191 categories, 193 philosophical meaning, 171 practical meaning, 171 practical success, 181 Common-Sense Relations, 206 Conceptual Instruments, 178 Conceptual Systems, 172 Concrete Experience, 20–22, 51, 68, 73, 80, 127, 212, 280 Conjunction, 137 Consolidated Unity, 149 Continuity, 134 Cosmic World, 103, 112, 178 Cosmology, 3, 24 Creation, 288, 290–291 Creative Power, 97 Critical Thought, 185–186 Dante, 107 Darwinism, 18, 70, 110 Daydreams, 156 De Amplitudine Regni Coelestis, 24 De Facto World, 262 De Jure World, 262 Death, 104 Definitions, 209 Democritus, 182, 193 Denkmittel, 171, 179 Der Gegenstand Der Erkenntniss, 228 Design Argument, 70, 109–110, 112, 114, 119, 122, 127 confidence in the future, 115 meaning, 113 practical significance, 121 pragmatic meaning, 114 Determinism, 116 responsibility, 117 Dialectic Process, 239 Die Erhöhung Des Vorgefundenen Daseins, 256 Diogenes, 259 Disjunction, 137 Divine Purpose, 111 Divinity, 31, 88, 96 Dogmatism, 11–12, 300 Dramatic Form, 143 Dualistic Theism, 70 Duty, 228 Edward Caird, 37, 246 Electric Influences, 134 Elements of Metaphysics, 244 Empiricism, 9, 11, 14–15, 20, 23, 32–33, 40, 51, 69–70, 72, 80, 92, 131, 160, 249, 263, 280, 282 tough-mindedness, 12 Empress of China, 135 Energy, 52, 102, 156, 191 English School, 147 Erkenntnistheoretische Ich, 122 Ernst Haeckel, 15–16 Ernst Mach, 57, 190, 220 Eternal Peace, 154, 262 Ether, 185, 263 Eucharist, 88 Euclid, 56, 171 Evidence, 9, 13, 40, 79, 225, 244 Evil, 30, 142, 297 Evolution, 103–104, 158 vestigial traits, 169 Experience, 30, 96, 128, 165, 200, 205, 222, 251, 260, 299 novelty, 168 External World, 89 F. C. S. Schiller, 75, 159, 197, 233, 242, 250 sensible core, 249 truth as what works, 234 F. H. Bradley, 30, 249, 258 criticism, 258 Falsehood, 198, 205, 219, 232 Filipinos, 261 Frederick Myers, 253, 256 Free Will, 5, 11–12, 14, 115, 122, 127, 290, 294 cosmological theory, 119 doctrine of relief, 121 meliorism, 119 novelty, 117 practical significance, 121 pragmatic basis, 118 Freedom of the Press, 260 Friedrich Schiller, 57–58, 64, 66–67 G. Heymans, 250 G. K. Chesterton, 3 G. Santayana, 175 Galileo Galilei, 185–186, 189, 193 Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel, 8, 37, 185, 187 George Berkeley, 50, 89, 185, 187, 193, 233 George Stuart Fullerton, 117 George Trumbull Ladd, 18 Giovanni Papini, 54, 79, 159, 257 God, 5, 52, 71, 80, 89, 97–98, 101–102, 112, 115, 119, 138, 146, 199, 239, 297–299 argument from design, 109 eternal moral order, 106 practical significance, 121 religious experience, 109 theology, 122 Good and Evil, 5, 75, 142 Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz, 23, 26 Gotthold Ephraim Lessing, 220 Great Bear, 252 Greek Anthology, 297 Guglielmo Marconi, 186 Harold H. Joachim, 236 Harvard University, 263 Healthy-Mindedness, 291, 294 Heinrich Rickert, 228, 236 Henri Bergson, 250 Henri Milhaud, 57 Henri Poincaré, 57 Herbert Spencer, 8, 16, 39, 94, 102–103, 105 Hermann Lotze, 256 Hinduism, 292 Home Rule for Ireland, 261 How to Make Our Ideas Clear, 46 Human Ancestors, 169 Human Creativity, 255, 257 Human Factors, 251 Human Possibilities, 275, 277 Humanism, 64–65, 159, 237, 243, 248, 251, 254 man-made truths, 242 Humean and Aristotelian Philosophy, 50, 90, 180, 185, 187, 221 Idealism, 10, 12, 17, 28, 70, 93, 192, 199 Ideals, 34, 106, 210–211, 286–287, 296, 298 Ideas, 198, 239 Immanuel Kant, 172, 187, 249 Indirect Verification, 206, 219 Inner Experience, 109, 156 Institutions, 158 Instrumentalism, 58, 194 Integral World, 288 Integration, 137 Intellect, 130 Intellectual Economy, 190 Intellectual Inconsistencies, 78 Intellectualism, 10, 12, 19, 22, 122, 145, 198, 200, 211, 246 James Clerk Maxwell, 197 James Martineau, 18 Johannes Kepler, 56 John Corcoran, 29 John Dalton, 185 John Dewey, 57–58, 64, 66, 75, 197, 233, 250 truth as satisfaction, 234 John Locke, 8, 37, 50, 90, 187 John McTaggart, 117 John Stuart Mill, 37 Josiah Royce, 17, 29 Julius Caesar, 214 Kantianism, 178, 249 Karl Pearson, 57 Kinds, 139, 178, 208 Knowledge, 146, 235, 250, 287 gradual modification, 167 growth, 167 prejudice, 168 Language, 214, 240–241 Laws, 93, 130 Locke, 92 Logic, 65, 67, 139, 172, 179, 210, 229, 245, 247, 255, 269, 279, 288, 296 Martinique, 113 Materialism, 11–12, 16, 19, 92–94, 96, 98–99, 101–103, 108, 268 cosmic dissolution, 104 definition, 107 functional divinity, 101 mechanical view, 101 objection, 106 scientific materialism, 105 Mathematics, 65, 172, 209–210, 245, 255 Matter, 52, 86, 89, 95–96, 98, 105, 233, 239 Matters of Fact, 202 Meaning, 46 Mechanism, 103, 111, 157 Mediating Philosophy, 40 Meliorism, 119, 127, 285–286, 300–301 Memory, 204 Metaphysics, 23, 43, 45, 52, 78, 83, 100, 259 Michael Faraday, 185–186 Microscopy, 144 Military Systems, 140 Mind, 93, 173, 209 Modus Vivendi, 109 Monism, 11–12, 129, 131, 133, 149, 166, 259, 276, 281, 287, 294, 301 Monistic-Pluralistic Alternative, 293 Monotheism, 298 Mont Pelée Eruption, 113 Morality, 74, 78, 108, 116, 155, 261, 279, 281, 293, 296, 301 Morrison I. Swift, 28–29, 31–32 Multiverse, 148 Mysticism, 151, 276 Naive Realism, 186 Natural Selection, 111 Naturalism, 16, 93, 268, 301 Nebular Hypothesis, 188 Nestor, 91 New York Subway, 186 Nominalism, 53, 86 Objectivity, 64, 67, 233 Oneness, 132, 145, 150, 152, 177 Opportunism, 260 Optics, 127 Optimism and Pessimism, 10, 12, 23, 27, 120, 246, 285–286 metaphysical, 14 practical, 14 Overbeliefs, 301 Oversoul, 239 Pantheism, 17, 70 Particulars, 71–72, 273 Pentadactyls, 263 Perception, 247 Peripatetic Philosophy, 184 Phenomenalism, 87, 92, 220, 263, 289 Philosophical Review, 227 Philosophical Temperament, 6, 12, 35 Philosophy, 3, 13, 15, 20–21, 33, 36–38, 48, 51, 55, 99–100, 123, 129, 176, 190, 192, 280, 293 Physical Laws, 62, 199 Physics, 49, 65, 255, 269 Pierre Duhem, 57, 190 Plato, 8, 37 Pluralism, 11–13, 129, 131, 133, 145, 160–161, 166, 178, 259, 277, 279, 281, 289, 292–294, 296, 300 additive constitution, 166 future experience, 278 truth, 260 Popular Science Monthly, 46 Positivism, 16, 53, 79, 100, 267 Postal Systems, 136 Pragmatism, 4, 23, 33, 40–41, 43–70, 72–73, 76–77, 80–81, 95–96, 100, 102, 114, 122, 127, 129, 132, 148, 165, 167–168, 194–195, 198, 201, 203–204, 212, 228, 232, 237, 251–259, 261–266, 268–271, 273, 275–281, 283, 286, 288, 296–297, 301 criticism, 268 forward-looking method, 122 mediator and reconciler, 79 philosophical method, 123 pluralism, 161, 260 reality, 257 regulative notion, 224 religion, 267 temperament, 259 versus rationalism, 226 Preconception, 248 Prehistoric Geniuses, 182 Principles, 13, 21, 209 Prodigal Son, 296 Professor Mach, 220 Professor Rickert, 236 Professor Royce, 146 Protestant Reformation, 123 Protestant Sects, 260 Protestantism, 17 Psychological Facts, 228 Psychology, 67, 94 Ptolemaic Astronomy, 223 Puritans, 297 Ralph Waldo Emerson, 234 Rationalism, 9, 11, 19–20, 22, 27, 32–34, 39, 51, 54, 66–68, 80, 94, 131, 217–218, 226, 228, 230, 257, 259, 282, 287 principles, 227 temperament, 259 tender-mindedness, 12 Real Presence, 89 Reality, 30, 95, 130, 173, 191, 198, 248, 254, 256, 265 belief about reality, 250 common-sense objects, 206 experienceable reality, 224 plasticity, 243 resisting factors, 243 threefold meaning, 212 Reason, 52, 176, 239, 288, 290 Redemption, 277 Relations, 244–245, 247 Relative Truth, 223 Relativismus, 236 Religion, 11–12, 14–15, 31–32, 40, 69, 71, 79, 81, 91, 102–103, 108, 120–121, 270, 273, 280–281, 292, 295, 299–301 René Descartes, 171, 189 Right to Believe, 258 Rome, 254 Royce, 142 Rubicon, 254 Rudolf Eucken, 256 Ruyssen, 57 Schiller-Dewey Theory of Truth, 197 Scholasticism, 17, 87, 184, 189, 221, 223, 250 Schopenhauer, 286 Science, 14–15, 18, 48–49, 52, 56–57, 100, 105, 148, 176, 180, 186–190, 216–217, 234 Science and Religion, 15, 18, 268 Scottish School, 18 Secondary Qualities, 186 Self, 180, 239 Self-Government, 261 Self-Sufficingness, 293 Self-Surrender, 293 Sensationalism, 10, 12 Sensations, 90, 128, 157, 172, 191, 211, 244, 246, 255, 301 Sentient Life, 155 Shadworth Hodgson, 50 Skepticism, 11–12 Social Life, 158, 213, 290 Socinians, 26 Socrates, 50 Solomon, 52 Soul, 90, 92 Space, 60, 134, 173, 183 Spirit, 86, 90, 93–95, 108, 115, 119, 239, 276 definition, 107 spirit versus matter, 127 Stability, 200, 215 Statt Der Lebendigen Natur, 36 Strength, 218, 221 Subject of Discourse, 133 Subjects and Attributes, 173 Substance, 85–86, 88, 147, 184, 189 Summum Genus, 140 Superhuman Hypothesis, 298–299 Swami Vivekananda, 151, 262, 274 Systems, 136, 140 T. H. Green, 17, 246 Telepathy, 158, 184, 289 Temperament, 71 Tender-Mindedness, 12–13, 262, 264, 273, 293, 295 The Cairds, 17 The Foundations of Belief, 104 The Life of Reason, 176 The Nature of Truth, 236 The Possible, 180, 298 The Will to Believe, 258 The World and the Individual, 29 Theism, 17, 19, 70, 93, 96, 99, 101, 103, 299, 301 divine providence, 101 Theodicy, 23 cosmological argument, 25 problem of evil, 24 Theology, 73, 79, 111, 142 Thersites, 91 Thomas Henry Huxley, 92, 120 Thomas Hobbes, 26 Time, 60, 134, 173, 183, 212, 214 Time-Keeping Function, 199 Timeless Essences, 219 To You, 274 Total Reconciliation, 296 Total Reflection, 127 Tough-Mindedness, 12–13, 262, 264, 273, 278, 293 Transcendental Absolutism, 301 Transcendental Idealism, 17, 73, 139, 250 Transcendentalism, 235 Truth, 58, 60–64, 68–69, 75–78, 169, 192, 194–195, 199, 205, 230, 279 abstract imperative, 231 concrete truths, 232 conditional obligation, 230 definition, 198 funded experience, 224 habit, 222 historical development, 241 imperative duty, 227 mutation, 225 plurality, 218 possible situations, 203 practical value, 202 rationalist definitions, 227 rationalistic account, 221 subjective, 67 the truth, 239 truths in the plural, 240 verification, 109, 201 Ultimate, 159, 165, 281 Unity, 129–130, 132, 136, 140–141 University of California, 47 University of Chicago, 58 University of Oxford, 58 Utilitarianism, 53 Value, 74, 86, 207 experiential meaning, 200 Vedanta, 151–152 Verification, 61, 201, 204, 206–208, 215, 218, 222, 230 agreeable leading, 202 View of the Universe, 3 W. S. Franklin, 49 Walt Whitman, 35, 274 poetry, 275 Washington Weather Bureau, 174 Waterloo, 246 Wealth, 218, 221 rationalist abstraction, 220 Westminster Abbey, 39 Wilhelm Ostwald, 48–49, 57, 190–191 Will, 258 William James, 47 William Ramsay, 63 William Wordsworth, 107, 262 World Salvation, 280, 282, 284–286, 290, 300