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Phaneroscopy. “φαν”

1. The Gist of the Argument.

My parting word to you, Reader, in the number for October,
1906, was a promise that in the present article the relevancy of
the system of Existential Graphs to the question of the truth of
Pragmaticism should be disclosed. Today, I straightway proceed to
redeem that promise. I have already explained to you what
Pragmaticism is; so that you are already aware that it is a
theory in regard to the common nature of the meanings
of all concepts. But you have seen (or should you not be satisfied with it, the next following sections
of this article shall make it clear to you,) that
Existential Graphs furnish a moving picture of the action of
the mind in thought,— that is, to so much of that as is
common to thoughts on all subjects. The study of that system,