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Our need for a coherent and consistent worldview; our emotional response when our intellectual inquiries satisfy this need.

Ethical principles are valid if they lead to good and meaningful outcomes when applied in practical situations.

James's defense of the right to adopt a believing attitude when evidence is inconclusive, but the decision is pressing, and the outcomes significant.

James suggests that ideas are not true or false in an absolute sense, but rather that they become true as they prove themselves over time and through application.

James's metaphor for a person's conscious experience as a fluid and continuous flow rather than a series of discrete elements.

The doctrine that relations between things are just as directly experienced as the things themselves and both are reality.

Ideas become true when they help us get into satisfactory relations with other parts of our experience.

James emphasizes that the purpose of thinking is to guide action, underscoring the functional aspect of thought.

James's view that all our beliefs, no matter how justified we think they are, could potentially be mistaken, hence we must always stay open to new experiences and evidence.

The value of a belief is determined by the action it dictates and the outcomes of those actions.

James's belief that the world can be made better by human effort and is not predetermined to be one way or another.

Refers to the practical consequences and useful outcomes an idea has in the real world.

In opposition to monism, James posits that reality may be composed of a multitude of different elements that may exist harmoniously or in conflict.

A way of interpreting concepts by tracing their practical consequences and impacts on experience.