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Quotation from Pragmatism: A New Name for Some Old Ways of Thinking by William James
“You must bring out of each word its practical cash-value, set it at work within the stream of your experience.”
Pragmatism: A New Name for Some Old Ways of Thinking, Lecture II (Project Gutenberg text)
James contrasts pragmatism with the hunt for a single solving word such as God, Matter or the Absolute.
Citation: "You must bring out of each word its practical cash-value, set it at work within the stream of your experience." — William James, Pragmatism: A New Name for Some Old Ways of Thinking, Lecture II (Project Gutenberg text). (id james-pragmatism-q3)
Portrait: William James by Alice M. Boughton, c. 1907, platinum print, from the National Portrait Gallery - NPG-NPG 87 37James-000001 (cropped), Alice Boughton, Public domain.
