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James urged us to think of true beliefs as those that point to successful actions, most of which result (in the sense of pragmatism's coiner, Charles Sander Peirce) from a convergence of belief among our "community of inquirers."
It is "by far the most legally sophisticated account of the Clinton-Lewinsky scandal" and "brings scholarly rigor to a saga so far dominated by journalistic accounts" ( Publishers Weekly ). In the New York Times Book Review , Andrew Sullivan calls Posner's pragmatism the perfect antidote to the hysteria that surrounded the scandal.
Modern pragmatism is a powerful brew of relativism--the idea that all truths are situational--and the optimistic belief that things work themselves out in the end.
Their tough-minded pragmatism survives today not only in Tokyo but also in the dynamic industrial zone that has burgeoned around it in such towns as Kawasaki and Yokohama.
Credit American pragmatism: We really can fix our problems if we try.