Pragmatism asks its usual question.
"Grant an idea or belief to be true," it says, "what concrete difference
will its being true make in any one's actual life? What experiences [may]
be different from those which would obtain if the belief were false?...What, in short, is the truth's cash-value in
experiential terms?" The moment pragmatism asks this question, it sees the
answer: TRUE IDEAS ARE THOSE THAT WE CAN ASSIMILATE, VALIDATE,
CORROBORATE, AND VERIFY. FALSE IDEAS ARE THOSE THAT WE CANNOT. That is the
practical difference it makes to us to have true ideas; that therefore is
the meaning of truth, for it is all that truth is known as.
'The truth of an idea is not a stagnant property inherent in it. Truth
HAPPENS to an idea.-(original emphasis)The Meaning of Truth, A Sequel to Pragmatism, William James, 1909.
Do you "buy" that?