What is truth, and how do we come to the truth when we live in such a complex and changing world?

Truth and the American way: The Pragmatism of William James
The Problem of truth
Along with Thoreau and Emerson, William James is perhaps the most important and influential of American Philosophers. William James was especially interested in the question of truth.
What is truth, and how do we come to the truth when we live in such a complex and changing world?
James was interested in truth on many levels: moral truth, scientific truth, religious truth, and philosophical truth. But the big problem for James is that many things can seem to be true that actually contradict each other, and trying to find the truth in such complex world is difficult.
James’ called his attempted solution to these problems “Pragmatism.” We will cover a small aspect of his theory as presented in his essay from 1907 entitled What Pragmatism Means.