satisfactoriness

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But satisfactoriness is both a subjective quality, and a present one.

From Essays in Radical Empiricism by James, William

There is therefore a great deal of room for license, and a great deal of license practiced, when the agreement of our ideas with reality means nothing more than their satisfactoriness to our lives’ demands.

From The pragmatic theory of truth as developed by Peirce, James, and Dewey by Geyer, Delton Loring

It did not occur, accordingly, to non-technical readers to interpret the doctrine that the meaning and validity of thought are fixed by differences made in consequences and in satisfactoriness, to mean consequences in personal feelings.

From Creative Intelligence Essays in the Pragmatic Attitude by Bode, Boyd H.

He smacked his lips at the satisfactoriness thereof.

From The Argus Pheasant by Beecham, John Charles

And there was the arrangement with Sally, which had a solid satisfactoriness about it.

From Space Platform by Leinster, Murray