we assert that Christ arose from the grave. We assert further that his resurrection proves his divinity. This is the nerve of the “historical argument” for Christianity. Yet a pragmatic philosopher will refuse to follow this line of reasoning. Granted he allows that Christ actually arose from the grave, he will say that this proves nothing more than that something very unusual took place in the case of “that man Jesus.” The philosophy of the pragmatist is to the effect that everything in this universe