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1 Critically discuss James’s claim that ‘whenever a dispute is serious, we ought to be able to show some practical difference that must follow from one side or the other’s being right’. What exactly is meant here by ‘practical’?

2 What does James mean by the ‘anti-intellectualist’ tendencies in pragmatism, and is he right to see these as an improvement on more traditional philosophical approaches?

3 What is the pragmatist’s proposed notion of truth?