Truth,' I there say, 'is a property of certain Of our ideas. It means their agreement, as falsity means their disagreement, with reality. Pragmatism asks its usual question. The truth of an idea is not a stagnant property inherent in it.
Truth happens to an idea.
It becomes true, is made true by events. Its verity is in fact an event,, a process, the process namely of its verifying itself, its verific ation . Its validity is the process of its valid ation . Better either intellectually or practically. . . . The true , to put it very briefly, is only the expedient in the way of our thinking, just as the right is only the expedient in the way of our behaving .