Let's get something very clear straight away: James never claimed that truth was a matter of mere convenience or momentary utility. John Dewey might have made this mistake occasionally, but James did not. James's pragmatism, at its core, is a philosophy of experience—not experience in the fleeting, subjective sense, but experience extended, socialized, and tested across the rough surfaces of reality. It is not unlike C.S. Peirce's conception of truth as an approximation to the facts in the infinite long run, tested scientifically by observation and experience. Once this is understood, Russell's critique begins to falter...
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