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True ideas are those that we can assimilate, validate, corroborate, and verify. False ideas are those that we cannot

William James
Truth, Ideas, Verify
Pragmatism: A New Name for Some Old Ways of Thinking Lecture 6 (1907)
True ideas are those that we can assimilate, validate, corroborate, and verify. False ideas are those that we cannot