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1909 March 22
Ms. 630
Meaning
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STUDIES OF MEANING.
PRAGN -
On a Useful Maxim of Thinking.
This Essay, in two chapters, which appeared {carat: "without its titles, was first published as two articles"} in the Popular Science Monthly, for Nov. 1877,
and Jan. 1878, contains the first formulation of this a principle which the writer had
urged for some {carat: "half a dozen"} years {carat: "or so,"} upon is philosophical friends, under the name of Pragmatism. It
attracted no particular {carat: "great"} attention, though a French version by the author was printed in the
Revue Philosophique. But some years later Professor William James, brought this
matter before the philosophic world, and pressed it {carat: "(pressing it, indeed,"} further than Mr. Peirce,
continues to acknowledge, not the existence, but yet the reality, of the Absolute, as set forth, for example by Royce)
able to approve; and in this form has become a real foreign {carat: "Pragmatism has taken a prominent place in"} philosophy of today.
It {carat: "The essay"} is here reprinted, with insignificant omissions and corrections, just in its original form
with the exception of the posts evolved between heavy square brackets, which are due to
the writer's deeper study of the subject during the generation that has elapsed since his first.