The Commens Dictionary

Quote from ‘Essays Toward the Interpretation of our Thoughts. My Pragmatism’

Term: 
Pragmatism
Quote: 

…so far as my pragmatism is a doctrine, it is the doctrine that the significance of any intellectual thought consists in the particular manner in which it tends, and will tend, to regulate the thinker’s conduct.

Source: 
Peirce, Charles S. (1909). Essays Toward the Interpretation of our Thoughts. My Pragmatism. MS [R] 620
Date: 
1909
References: 
MS [R] 620:16; ILS 192-193
Citation: 
‘Pragmatism’ (pub. 23.11.15-17:56). 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-essays-toward-interpretation-our-thoughts-my-pragmatism-0.
Posted: 
Nov 23, 2015, 17:56 by Mats Bergman
Last revised: 
Oct 07, 2018, 13:21 by Mats Bergman