Discussion
William James' theory of truth suggests that a proposition is true if it can be :
Answer: D
A proposition is true if it can be assimilated, validated, corroborated and verified.
In Pragmatism (lecture 6), William James writes that true ideas are those we can assimilate, validate, corroborate and verify; false ideas are those we cannot. Truth happens to an idea; it is made true by events.
Options A, B and C each give only part of the four-term formula, so they are incomplete statements of James's view.
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