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Seven Ways of Looking at a Pragmatic Maxim • 3
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The third excerpt puts a gloss on the meaning of a practical bearing and provides an alternative statement of the maxim.

❝Such reasonings and all reasonings turn upon the idea that if one exerts certain kinds of volition, one will undergo in return certain compulsory perceptions. Now this sort of consideration, namely, that certain lines of conduct will entail certain kinds of inevitable experiences is what is called a “practical consideration”. Hence is justified the maxim, belief in which constitutes pragmatism; namely:

❝In order to ascertain the meaning of an intellectual conception one should consider what practical consequences might conceivably result by necessity from the truth of that conception; and the sum of these consequences will constitute the entire meaning of the conception.❞

(Peirce, CP 5.9, 1905).

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