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Show FALL SESSION November 13, 1943 held at The Utah State Agricultural College, Logan Utah GENERAL MEETING Experimental Nutritional Deficiencies . Maxwell M. Wintrobe University of Utah, Salt Lake Cit>y. Utah Report of a Rattlesnake Bite A. . Woodbury University of Utah, Salt Lake City. Utah . Economic Aspects of Irrigation Canals' Orson W. Israelson Utah State Agricultural College, Logan, Utah The Ohligation of the Humanities N. A. Pedersen Utah State Agricultural College, Logan, Utah Truth as a Way of Life-The Social Way E. E. Ericksen University of Utah, Salt Lake City, Utah In social investigation, values, are always involved immedi ately or remotely. Social facts, laws, postulates are meaningful because they are socially significant. Yet values are of human con cern and are within, not beyond experience. Even the "inevitabil ity," the "must" quality which seems always to accompany the meaning of truth is found within experience and is somehow connected with social demands. Human social life, as a going concern, is creative. It creates its own goals and formulates its own instruments for achieving them. The problem at hand determines the character of the judgment as well as a .test of its validity. In the process means and ends are not rigidly separated; means may become 'ends and ends may become means. Truth judgment is. applied to the goals It as well as to the ways and means for achieving the goals. in each. Error in judgment what is significant socially recognizes is that which fails to do so. Certainly we do not have available above social as criteria any external order of reality over and experience .: IPresented in detail in the Utah Agricultural Experiment Station Bulletin No. 313. entitled. "Canal Lining Experiments in the Delta Area. Utah," by Orson W. Israelson and Ronald C. Reeve, published July. 1944. 3 |
