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Not since Pythagoras have geometrical entities been granted this sort of psychic potency, to the point that they have a deeper being over and above their measurable and experienceable traits.

From Salon • Apr. 11, 2013

The pragmatist view, on the contrary, of the truth-relation is that it has a definite content, and that everything in it is experienceable.

From Meaning of Truth by James, William

Reducing, by the pragmatic test, the meaning of each of these concepts to its positive experienceable operation, I showed them all to mean the same thing, viz., the presence of 'promise' in the world.

From Meaning of Truth by James, William

So far as reality means experienceable reality, both it and the truths men gain about it are everlastingly in process of mutation-mutation towards a definite goal, it may be—but still mutation.

From Pragmatism by James, William

Our pragmatist view, on the contrary, is that the truth-relation is a definitely experienceable relation, and therefore describable as well as namable; that it is not unique in kind, and neither invariable nor universal.

From Meaning of Truth by James, William