William James Arguments Against Pragmatism In The 19th Century

A strong argument supporting Pragmatism would be that the theory has a specific set of rational ordering. William James in the nineteenth century believed that reality is confined to the stimuli that perk our interests. He gave the criteria for seven realities people could exist in at any particular time. The first was the physical world that is perceived. The second was the scientific world that people learn to conceive through formal observations. The third is the abstract world that is expressed in terms of logic, math, metaphysics, ethics and aesthetics. The fourth is the world of bias commonly attributed to a particular ethnicity. The fifth is the supernatural worlds of religion, such as Christianity or Buddhism, that contain their beliefs of post mortal states. The sixth world is the …show more content…
There are also people who are unsure of their interest in the beginning of a project, does their experience also contain false pretenses?
Pragmatists under James’ theory would argue against these accusations. Theoretically there is a beginning interest in any field of study. Philosophers and mathematicians alike are attempting to destroy bias, not interest. The professional(s) could very well be interested in the results of a project, if not the process by which he/she obtains the information. Interest is what drives a person to invest themselves in a subject. A person wouldn’t continue to investigate the project if there was no benefits to gain from it. Interests are vast and can come from a variety of different sources. For instance, a person can be driven by monetary need or peer pressure, among innumerable other motivations. Perhaps the form driving the interest isn’t in the subject itself but what the host could gain by subjecting themselves to the project. Regardless of the topic, there is essentially always a motive behind a person’s