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Title: Pragmatism: A New Name for Some Old Ways of Thinking
Author: William James
Release date: February 1, 2004 [eBook #5ll6]
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Language: English
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PRAGMATISM
A New Name for Some Old Ways of Thinking
By William James
To the Memory of John Stuart Mill
from whom I first learned the pragmatic openness of mind and whom my fancy likes to picture as our leader were he alive to-day.
Preface
The lectures that follow were delivered at the Lowell Institute in
Boston in November and December, 1906, and in January, 1907, at
Columbia University…