...should. What he said when attempting to state his theory formally was this: 'Consider what effects, which might conceivably have practical bearings, we...of our conception to have. Then our conception of those effects is the whole of our conception of the object.' What this tells us is that to make clear...

...way. Another writer, a quarter of a century ago, laid down this maxim: "Consider what effects that might conceivably have practical bearings, we conceive...of our conception to have. Then our conception of those effects is the whole of our conception of the object." (CP 8.119) Peirce goes on to show that...

...principle of pragmatism, "consider what effects, that might conceivably have practical bearings . . . then our conception of these effects is the whole of our conception of the object." "But [this] is only," he adds in a note, "an application of the sole logical principle recommended...

...experience. CS Pierce's formula for making an idea of an object clear was simply to "consider what effects, which might conceivably have practical bearings, we conceive the object of our conception to have."* William James, following what he took to be Pierce's thought, declared that "the effective meaning...

...(Erziehungstheorie, insg.) 27 J. Dewey: Democracy. 139. 28 J. Dewey: Democracy. 137. 29 K. Oi'hler. In: Charles S. Peirce: How to Make Our Ideas Clear. In: Popular Science Monthly 12. 1878. Im Text zit. nach: Über die Klarheit unserer Gedanken. Einl. u. Hrsg. von K. Oehler. Frankfurt...

...but in practical consequences for everyday life. Here's how Peirce put it: "Consider what effects, which might conceivably have practical bearings, we conceive the object of our conceptions to have. Then our conception of these effects is the whole of our conception of the object....

...in one of them—"How to Make Our Ideas Clear"—he stated the famous maxim: "Consider what effects, which might conceivably have practical bearings, we...effects is the whole of our conception of the object." 10 Nowhere in this, or any of his other papers of the period, did Peirce use the term "pragmatism,"...

...clearly expressed in one of his most fundamental formulations of pragmatism: "Consider what effects, that might conceivably have practical bearings, we conceive...effects is the whole of our conception of the object" (ibid.: 5.2). Thus, the meaning of the word "chair", to return to an earlier example, is something...

...Essays, Baltimore: The Johns Hopkins University Press, 1963, pp. 1-29. 5. "Consider what effects, that might conceivably have practical bearings, we conceive...effects is the whole of our conception of the object." CS Peirce, "Some Consequences of Four Incapacities," in The Essential Peirce. Selected Philosophical...

...for attaining the third grade of clearness of apprehension is as follows: Consider what effects, that might conceivably have practical bearings, we conceive...effects is the whole of our conception of the object' (CP 5.401-402). The above was developed, albeit in a heavily modified version, by James, who transformed...