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Quote from ‘Harvard Lectures on Pragmatism: Lecture I’

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, Charles S. (1903). Harvard Lectures on Pragmatism: Lecture I. MS [R] 301
Date: 
1903
References: 
CP 5.18
Citation: 
‘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.
Posted: 
Apr 22, 2013, 18:30 by Sami Paavola
Last revised: 
Jan 07, 2014, 00:57 by Commens Admin