that “the whole function of philosophy ought to be to find out what definite difference it will make to you and me, at definite instances of our life, if this world-formula or that world-formula be the true one.”7 So, in short, for pragmatists truth is what works. As with the coherentist perspective on truth, pragmatism can be helpful in identifying or testing for truth claims, and this benefit will be considered shortly. Yet, like coherentism, pragmatism seems problematic as a definition for truth.