Abstract
This essay studies the analysis that the psychologist and philosopher William James applies to the function of belief in relation to his concepts of the stream of thought and process of knowledge. Furthermore, it pays attention to James’s phenomenology of certainty within experience and to the explanation of the foundational place of feelings in experience. In James’s thought we may call certainty only what can provide a knowledge which stands in immediate relation to the inner state: the images provided by individual depths are both the locus of perplexity and the spring of certainty. The truth of beliefs is in this sense provisional upon the outcome of the continuing experience of understanding and of the continuing process of critical scrutiny.
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