Quote from "Harvard Lectures on Pragmatism: Lecture I"

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‘Pragmatism’ (pub. 22.04.13-18:30). 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-harvard-lectures-pragmatism-lecture-i-6.

Term:

Pragmatism

Quote:

Pragmatism is the principle that every theoretical judgment expressible in a sentence in the indicative mood is a confused form of thought whose only meaning, if it has any, lies in its tendency to enforce a corresponding practical maxim expressible as a conditional sentence having its apodosis in the imperative mood.

Source:

Peirce, C. S. (1903). Harvard Lectures on Pragmatism: Lecture I. MS [R] 301.

References:

CP 5.18

Date of Quote:

1903

URL:

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