Human consciousness is selective; it concentrates on some things and ignores others.

- Human consciousness is selective; it concentrates on some things and ignores others.
- Ideas and beliefs are essentially plans for organizing and structuring our experience and world.
- One cannot prove finally whether human action is free or determined, but there are good reasons, especially moral ones, for believing that human action involves freedom.
- A person's psychological makeup affects his or her religious experience, and that experience is best evaluated in terms of its moral quality.
- Pragmatism consists of two parts: It is a method for the determination of meaning, and it is a theory about the nature of truth.
- The truth or falsity of a judgment, its agreement or disagreement with reality, depends on obtaining or failing to obtain corroboration of the expectations that follow from the judgment in question.

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