Objective Truth and the Practice Relativity of Justification in the Pragmatic Turn
In the beginning, as they say, was the ‘pragmatic maxim’ of Peirce and James. Peirce’s early formulation of the maxim in “How to Make Our Ideas Clear” ran as follows:Consider what effects, which might conceivably have practical bearings, we conceive the object of our conception to have. Then our co...
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European Journal of Pragmatism and American Philosophy
2017
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| Résumé: | In the beginning, as they say, was the ‘pragmatic maxim’ of Peirce and James. Peirce’s early formulation of the maxim in “How to Make Our Ideas Clear” ran as follows:Consider what effects, which might conceivably have practical bearings, we conceive the object of our conception to have. Then our conception of these effects is the whole of our conception of the object. (Peirce 1878: 132; cf. Bernstein 2010: 2-3; and O’Shea 2008: 208-13)At its core, pragmatism thus originated as a method for c... |
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