American philosopher and one of the most prolific philosophers in history — over 100 books — who developed a pragmatic idealism arguing that knowledge is a practical achievement of mind in interaction with a mind-independent world.
Pragmatic idealism: the conceptual framework we use to understand reality is mind-dependent, but reality itself is not; truth is the product of a rational inquiry aimed at cognitive success. Coherence theory of truth and justification. Contributed to formal axiology and the logic of priority.
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