Pragmatist and Psychologist
William James
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An American philosopher and psychologist who helped found pragmatism and described the mind as a flowing stream shaped by attention and habit.
Key work: The Principles of Psychology (1890)
“My experience is what I agree to attend to.”
Key ideas, in brief (in our words)
Test an idea by the difference it makes.
Thought flows like a stream, not a chain.
Habits are formed by acting firmly at the start.
Read more: Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy
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