Quote from "Letters to Paul Carus"

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Digital Companion to C. S. Peirce

‘Pragmaticism’ (pub. 02.03.16-14:54). 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-letters-paul-carus-12.

Term:

Pragmaticism

Quote:

Pragmatism (pragmaticism) might be defined as that mode of thinking that never results in a concept that is equivalent to a noun substantive, since all that it thinks is an assertion, or a qualified assertion such as “suppose that (so and so),” or else it is equivalent to an expression of the speaker’s will not asserting it so much as exhibiting it.

Source:

Peirce, C. S. (1890-1913). Letters to Paul Carus. MS [L] 77.

References:

MS [L] 77

Date of Quote:

1910-07-19

URL:

http://www.commens.org/dictionary/entry/quote-letters-paul-carus-12