dictionary-substantive

Updated: May 15, 2025

The hypothesis will, in short, have worked successfully all round the circle and proved self-corroborative, and the circle will be closed. The anti-pragmatist, however, immediately falls foul of the word 'opinion' here, abstracts it from the universe of life, and uses it as a bare dictionary-substantive, to deny the rest of the assumptions which it coexists withal.

William James - Meaning of Truth