ABSTRACT
In the popular mind, however, the two views can easily merge together, as is illustrated in the following revealing passage written by an educational theorist: scientists themselves hold beliefs, even within science, that cannot be warranted by scientific methods. And evidently Bertrand Russell saw 'epistemological relativism' and 'epistemological pragmatism' as being somewhat similar, for they both were closely linked with certain authoritarian and totalitarian ideas that he found odious. The passages already quoted make it clear that James accepted the correspondence theory as a definition of truth, but that he also regarded this as fairly unenlightening. So, his interest was elsewhere; he wanted to establish a criterion of truth, to establish a procedure for identifying 'true ideas'. Moore acknowledged that reality is mutable; as he put it, many things in the future 'will be different from what they are now'. In the realm of truth-processes facts come independently and determine beliefs provisionally.
