<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=UTF-8"></head><body dir="auto"><div dir="auto">"Pragmatism emerged in the US in the late 1800s as a response to the Enlightenment push for absolute truth. The pragmatists \u2014 people like William James and John Dewey \u2014 were less interested in certainty and more concerned with immediate experience"<br>https://www.vox.com/2022/6/5/23143285/vox-conversations-cornel-west-american-pragmatism<br><br>The essential insight of the pragmatists \u2013 whether Peirce, William James or John Dewey \u2013 was their recognition of the value of the subjective aspects of human experience. Thus, they did not view feelings and speculation as degraded junior partners to rational science. Rather, they understood them as an essential ingredient in the construction of meaning.<br>https://www.scotusblog.com/2020/07/ask-the-author-justice-oliver-wendell-holmes-and-the-loneliness-of-original-work/<br><br></div><div dir="auto">-J.</div><div dir="auto"><br></div></body></html>