The essay is not about willing beliefs into reality, it is about showing the relationships between our beliefs and reality and how the former should be based on

The essay is not about willing beliefs into reality, it is about showing the relationships between our beliefs and reality and how the former should be based on the latter. Or to put it in another way that a true statement is a statement that corresponds to what is going on in the real world. (for the record, I haven't re-read this essay in a long time, there might be some sort of a revision done on it, but I doubt that much has changed)