Maxim of Pragmatism

Keyword: Maxim of Pragmatism


Dictionary Entry | Posted 14/03/2018
Quote from "A Brief Intellectual Autobiography by Charles Sanders Peirce"

the principle he called pragmatism, that is, that every concept (in contrast to qualities of feeling, images, experiences, etc.) is definable in terms of a...

Article in Journal | Posted 14/02/2018
Short, T. L. (2017). The 1903 Maxim
The maxim that concludes Peirce's 1903 Harvard lectures on pragmatism is not a figurative restatement of his 1878 pragmatic maxim: it adds to it a non-verificationist dimension of meaning. That...
Article in Journal | Posted 25/03/2016
Forster, Paul (2003). The Logic of Pragmatism: A Neglected Argument for Peirce's Pragmatic Maxim
Demonstrates the importance of Charles Peirce's early work in logic to his discovery of the pragmatic maxim. Background on Peirce's essay "How to Make Our Ideas Clear"; Insights...
Dictionary Entry | Posted 15/10/2015
Quote from "Pragmatism"

Consider what effects that might conceivably have practical bearings you conceive the object of your conception to have: then the general mental habit that consists in the production of these...

Dictionary Entry | Posted 13/10/2015
Quote from "Pragmatism"

…the total meaning of the predication of an intellectual concept is contained in an affirmation that, under all conceivable circumstances of a given kind, (or under this or that more or less...

Dictionary Entry | Posted 13/10/2015
Quote from "Pragmatism"

…that the total meaning of the predication of an intellectual concept consists in affirming that, under all conceivable circumstances of a given kind, the subject of the predication would...

Dictionary Entry | Posted 20/05/2015
Quote from "Harvard Lectures on Pragmatism: Lecture II"

Pragmatism [was considered] as the maxim that the entire meaning and significance of any conception lies in its conceivable practical bearings, – not certainly...

Dictionary Entry | Posted 05/04/2015
Quote from "Pragmatism"

Consider what effects that might conceivably have practical bearings, – especially in modifying habits or as implying capacities, – you conceive the object of your conception to have....

Monograph | Posted 08/04/2014
Forster, Paul (2011). Peirce and the Threat of Nominalism

Charles Peirce, the founder of pragmatism, was a thinker of extraordinary depth and range - he wrote on philosophy, mathematics, psychology, physics, logic, phenomenology, semiotics, religion and...

Monograph | Posted 27/06/2013
Hookway, Christopher (2012). The Pragmatic Maxim: Essays on Peirce and Pragmatism

Christopher Hookway presents a series of essays on the philosophy of Charles Sanders Peirce (1839-1913), the 'founder of pragmatism' and one of the most important and original American...

Dictionary Entry | Posted 07/04/2013
Quote from "Additament to the Article A Neglected Argument for the Reality of God "

According to that logical doctrine which the present writer first formulated in 1873 and named Pragmatism, the true meaning of any product of the intellect lies in whatever...

Dictionary Entry | Posted 07/04/2013
Quote from "A Neglected Argument for the Reality of God (O)"

Since I have employed the word Pragmaticism, and shall have occasion to use it once more, it may perhaps be well to explain it. About forty years ago, my studies of Berkeley, Kant, and...

Dictionary Entry | Posted 07/04/2013
Quote from "Issues of Pragmaticism"

[It appears, then, that the rule for attaining the third grade of clearness of apprehension is as follows: Consider what effects, that might conceivably have practical bearings, we conceive the...

Dictionary Entry | Posted 07/04/2013
Quote from "(Prag) [R]"

But pragmatism does not undertake to say in what the meanings of all signs consist, but merely to lay down a method of determining the meanings of intellectual concepts, that is, of those upon...

Dictionary Entry | Posted 07/04/2013
Quote from "Issues of Pragmaticism"

Pragmaticism was originally enounced in the form of a maxim, as follows: Consider what effects that might conceivably have practical bearings you conceive...

Dictionary Entry | Posted 07/04/2013
Quote from "Issues of Pragmaticism"

According to the maxim of Pragmaticism, to say that determination affects our occult nature is to say that it is capable of affecting deliberate conduct; and since we are conscious of what we do...

Dictionary Entry | Posted 07/04/2013
Quote from "Draft of Nichols Review [C]"

The word pragmatism was invented to express a certain maxim of logic, which, as was shown at its first enouncement, involves a whole system of philosophy. The...

Dictionary Entry | Posted 07/04/2013
Quote from "Harvard Lectures on Pragmatism: Lecture I"

On their side, one of the faults that I think they might find with me is that I make pragmatism to be a mere maxim of logic instead of a sublime principle of speculative philosophy. In order to be...

Dictionary Entry | Posted 07/04/2013
Quote from "Harvard Lectures on Pragmatism: Lecture VII, a deleted passage"

If you carefully consider the question of pragmatism you will see that it is nothing else than the question of the logic of abduction. That is, pragmatism proposes a certain maxim which, if sound...

Dictionary Entry | Posted 07/04/2013
Quote from "Harvard Lectures on Pragmatism: Lecture VII, a deleted passage"

Pragmatism will be more essentially significant for him than for any other logician, for the reason that it is in action that logical energy returns to the uncontrolled and uncriticizable parts of...

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