| Robert D. Richardson - Philosophers - 2006 - 660 pages
...maxim": "Consider what effects, which might conceivably have practical bearings, we might conceive the object of our conception to have. Then our conception...these effects is the whole of our conception of the object."18 Peirce firmly believed that "a prerequisite for successful experimentation is an external... | |
| Michael Sullivan - Philosophy - 2007 - 178 pages
...concept, we should "consider what effects, which might conceivably have practical bearings, we conceive the object of our conception to have. Then, our conception...these effects is the whole of our conception of the object."38 For Peirce, pragmatic inquiry was concerned exclusively with establishing the meaning of... | |
| Michael Bacon - Free enterprise - 2007 - 146 pages
...pragmatic maxim: "Consider what effects, that might conceivably have practical bearings, we conceive the object of our conception to have. Then, our conception...these effects is the whole of our conception of the object."6 James proposed that philosophers ask of any idea, "what special difference would come into... | |
| Jonathan Eric Adler, Catherine Z. Elgin - Philosophy - 2007 - 897 pages
...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. III. Let us illustrate this rule by some examples; and, to begin with the simplest one possible, let... | |
| Katrin Amian - Literary Criticism - 2008 - 239 pages
...this maxim reads: Consider what effects, that might conceivably have practical bearings, we conceive the object of our conception to have. Then, our conception...effects is the whole of our conception of the object. (CP 5.402) As many Peirce scholars have noted, Peirce later refuted the implicit claim to the primacy... | |
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