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‘Practical Science’ (pub. 23.07.15-18:45). 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-basis-pragmaticism-12.
Term: 
Practical Science
Quote: 

The present writer will call […] science which differs from [heuretic science] in all the important respects which result from investigation being pursued, not because of the august nature of the truth sought, but for the sake of some anticipated utility of it to some man or men, practical science…

Source: 
Peirce, C. S. (1906). The Basis of Pragmaticism. MS [R] 283.
References: 
EP 2:372
Date of Quote: 
1906
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