The Commens Dictionary

Quote from ‘Issues of Pragmaticism’

Quote: 

Pragmaticism makes the ultimate intellectual purport of what you please to consist in conceived conditional resolutions, or their substance; and therefore, the conditional propositions, with their hypothetical antecedents, in which such resolutions consist, being of the ultimate nature of meaning, must be capable of being true, that is, of expressing whatever there be which is such as the proposition expresses, independently of being thought to be so in any judgment, or being represented to be so in any other symbol of any man or men. But that amounts to saying that possibility is sometimes of a real kind.

Date: 
1905
References: 
CP 5.453
Citation: 
‘Pragmaticism’ (pub. 21.04.13-18:38). Quote in M. Bergman & S. Paavola (Eds.), The Commens Dictionary: Peirce's Terms in His Own Words. New Edition. Retrieved from http://www.commens.org/dictionary/entry/quote-issues-pragmaticism-6.
Posted: 
Apr 21, 2013, 18:38 by Sami Paavola
Last revised: 
Sep 17, 2017, 10:30 by Mats Bergman