On The Pragmatism Truth View Of James

William James is a famous philosopher since the foundation of USA, as the founder of pragmatism; he has started pragmatism philosophy motion, has discussed truth comparatively systematically, and has made the truth be the core content of pragmatism theory. James who serves as a main represent person of pragmatism theory, has been praised "the most important person produced by United States". His philosophy have expressed a times unique trend, have enriched epistemology field content, have had the indelible trail on epistemology phylogeny. The value of truth of James is the core problem of pragmatism theory, is also the priority problem that people always appraises at the same time. In our country, it is for a long time looked upon as an representative of idealism metal biology, but a lot of scholars suggest that should appraise it all-round, objective, think the content of James is very rich and complicated, we must make correct valuation about it.The value of truth of James is that truth is to accord with the pragmatism, is one kind of character of concept, this is consistent with average view. Max thinks that truth is the correct cognition to objective things and the objective law, but is not referring to objective things or the objective law itself, they have coinciding from the form. But when talking about the understanding of coincidence and honest, he has the different explanation. He defines the honest from three arrangements, included the feeling factor, relation of feeling, experience and truth, such understanding must guide subjective idealism. He thinks that coincidence is insufficient if it only means imitating, coincidence really being one effect of guiding or process, and brings forward extremely inspired coincidence theory. James understands that"the honest"is transferred to comply with the will of person. Thinks that honesty is absolute hoarse, unreal and absolute unable assurance outside people's thought, we can grasp that its substitute that already had digested by the thought of people forever. Therefore, James has denied the existence of objective truth.Marxism thinks that, truth both be absolute and relativity. James also does not do one's utmost to exaggerate the relativity, also emphasize the absolute at the same time. James regards that honest is not to motionless but be always changing, improves people's active creativeness to important location. When the tradition western philosophy is talking about truth problem, emphasizes the pure objectivity of truth generally, ignore the effect of human being. He opposes this view; thinks that truth is contact with people's value and benefit. Advocating the artificial nature of truth, shows that his truth has obvious humanism, and criticizes the tradition value of truth, has led "people's activity"and "the characteristic of practice" into philosophy, probes the formation process of truth, this is coinciding with Marxism.About the verification of truth, James analyses the relation from truth and concept."True"is both an ontology concept and an epistemology concept. On the cognition significance of "true", it composed truth problem. James thinks that all concepts have to confirm their serviceability, and then it is possible to become true. He thinks that a concept authenticity is not its inherent, motionless institute character at the same time. "Truth is happened for concept, that it becomes real because of many events", its authenticity is a event or process in fact, is that it confirms its self process, is its verification process, is the process that its effective character goes into effect of urging it, so truth is divided into requiring confirming and not requiring confirming, he thinks that the confirming nature is a quality of truth. Meanwhile, James has suggested true verification, includes two forms, one is to confirm directly, being verification of actual honest, the other is to confirm indirectly, it is also the latent possible verification, they have the same effective, that moreover indirect verification application is more convenient than direct verification, however, for applying maintaining and ensuring indirect verification, he has brought forward one kind of credit system that if you accept my verification to one object, I accept your verification to another object.James brings forward a significant well-known saying about the standard of truth, " it is useful, because of it is true; it is true because of it is useful ". He thinks that truth is an efficacy, meaning that a view has got realization, and has got verification; truth is one kind of effective implement. Because people know truth is to regard the truth as one kind of implement, which is a weapon of ideas and thoughts to guide people's practice. But it has aroused significant dispute when James gets truth in touch with efficacy together, people think that the efficacy is always connected with the individual, appraising if the cognition have a truth nature according to personal need, this is subjective and relative to truth. However, we have seen truth value and the relation of truth and the value according to James's understanding. He has brought forward extra truth concept when explain that useful is truth concretely, he has explained that "extra truth " is to refer to the truth becoming real truth from lurking truth, becoming the sort significance truth that being already confirmed and having already produced a marked effect from the possible truth that being not confirmed and not producing a marked effect. James advocates that truth is "pluralistic" besides. He discusses this view from realism, and from "pure objective truth" and "absolute truth". He wants to resolve the argument between materialism and idealism, to remove antithetic between the empiricism and theory doctrine, this have seeped through his harmonious and compromise philosophy route. In fact, the "multielement" of truth is not real multielement, it just mean that there will be many truth if we consider the truth from different angle, arrangement and aspect.There is very rich content of James's truth value, though some of his view is unreasonable, false aspects, we can not ignore his significant thoughts in epistemology field of truth, especially his spirit of seeking the true. By the exploring of his thought, we can know the value of truth more deeply.