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others to corroborate his own judgment. Surely 

 this admits the principle of a judgment that is 

 correct, true, in se. 



Teacher: Reply. The pragmatist says that 

 judgment is pragmatic, i.e., originated under con 

 ditions of need for a survey and statement, and 

 tested by efficiency in meeting this need. And 

 then you think you have refuted him by saying 

 that any appeal to judgment is intellectualistic ! 

 Such begging of the question convinces me that 

 the radical difficulty of the intellectualist is that 

 he conceives of the pragmatist as beginning with 

 a theory of truth, when in reality the latter begins 

 with a theory about judgments and meanings of 

 which the theory of truth is a corollary. 



Pupil: Objection Eight. Nevertheless, you are 

 endeavoring to convert your opponent to a certain 

 theory. Surely that is an intellectual undertak 

 ing, and in theory (at least) the theoretical cri 

 terion, as Mr. Bradley has well said, must be 

 supreme. 



Teacher: Reply. A little reflection will convince 

 you that you are going around in the same old 

 circle. Since men have to act together, since the 

 individual subsists in social bonds and activities, 

 to convert another to a certain way of looking 

 at things is to make social ties and functions better 

 adapted, more prosperous in their workings. Only 

 if the pragmatist held the wtellectualist s position, 



