 | William James - Conversion - 1902 - 558 pages
...be no proper element of the thought's significance. To develop a thought's meaning we need therefore only determine what conduct it is fitted to produce;...tangible fact at the root of all our thought-distinctions is that there is no one of them so fine as to consist in anything but a possible difference of practice.... | |
 | WILLIAM JAMES - 1902 - 566 pages
...be no proper element of the thought's significance. To develop a thought's meaning we need therefore only determine what conduct it is fitted to produce...significance; and the tangible fact at the root of al l our thought-distinctions is that there is no one of them so fine as to consist in anything but... | |
 | 1906 - 906 pages
...no proper element of the thought's significance. To develop a thought's meaning we need, therefore, only determine what conduct it is fitted to produce;...significance; and the tangible fact at the root of all our thought distinctions is that there is no one of them so fine as to consist in anything but a possible... | |
 | Ramananda Chatterjee - India - 1911 - 524 pages
...'How to make our ideas clear,' in the Popular Scientific Monthly for January of that year Mr. Pierce, after pointing out that our beliefs are really rules...is fitted, to produce : that conduct is for us its soje significance. And the tangible fact at the root of all our thought distinctions, however subtle,... | |
 | Susan Elizabeth Blow - Early childhood education - 1908 - 430 pages
...to Make Our Ideas Clear " pointed out " that our beliefs are really rules for action," and urged " that to develop a thought's meaning we need only determine what conduct it is fitted to produce." 1 " To attain perfect clearness in our thoughts of an object," adds Professor James, " we need only... | |
 | Theodore De Laguna, Grace Mead Andrus De Laguna - Evolution - 1910 - 276 pages
...expressed in 1878), exhibits very clearly the conception of meaning generally held by pragmatists. ". . . Mr. Peirce, after pointing out that our beliefs are...only determine what conduct it is fitted to produce: 1 that conduct is for us its sole significance. And the tangible fact at the root of all our thought-distinctions,... | |
 | Theodore De Laguna, Grace Mead Andrus De Laguna - Philosophy - 1910 - 276 pages
...expressed in 1878), exhibits very clearly the conception of meaning generally held by pragmatists. ". . . Mr. Peirce, after pointing out that our beliefs are...we need only determine what conduct it is fitted to produce:1 that conduct is for us its sole significance. And the tangible fact at the root of all our... | |
 | William Ralph Inge - 1910 - 272 pages
...current philosophy, pragmatism is the theory that ' all our beliefs are really rules for action' ; and that ' to develop a thought's meaning, we need only...produce ; that conduct is for us its sole significance.' 1 From 1 Professor W. James, Pragmatism, p. 46. this it is made to follow that the ' true is the name... | |
 | William Ralph Inge - Faith - 1910 - 282 pages
...current philosophy, pragmatism is the theory that ' all our beliefs are really rules for action ' ; and that ' to develop a thought's meaning, we need only...fitted to produce ; that conduct is for us its sole significance.'1 From 1 Professor W. James, Pragmatism, p. 46 this it is made to follow that the ' true... | |
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Mr. Peirce, after pointing out that our beliefs are really rules for action, said that, to develop a thought's meaning, we need only determine what conduct it is fitted to produce: that conduct is for us its sole significance. And the tangible fact at... 
