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According to William James’s Pragmatism what do the truth and justification of a belief consist? 'The true,' to put it very briefly, is only the expedient in the way of our thinking, just as 'the right' is only the expedient in the way of our behaving. Expedient in almost any fashion; and expedient in the long run and on the whole of course; for what meets expediently all the experience in sight won't necessarily meet all farther experiences equally satisfactorily. Experience, as we know, has ways of boiling over, and making us correct our present formulas. – William James, Pragmatism pg 100. There are five main “theories of truth”: the correspondence theory, the coherence theory, and the pragmatic, redundancy and semantic theories. They all deal with truth and falsity as properties of what people say or think. At the same time they are confusing and difficult to follow as they do not distinctly address the questions – “How should the content of what we say or think be specified? What are the bearers of truth?” Pragmatic theory, one of the main representatives of which is William James, holds that the truth of a belief is a matter of whether it “works,” i.e. whether acting upon it pays off just lik