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Quotation from Illustrations of the Logic of Science by Charles Sanders Peirce
“Consider what effects, 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.”
Illustrations of the Logic of Science, How to Make Our Ideas Clear, II (Chance, Love, and Logic (1923), Project Gutenberg text)
The rule for the third grade of clearness, later known as the pragmatic maxim.
Citation: "Consider what effects, 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." — Charles Sanders Peirce, Illustrations of the Logic of Science, How to Make Our Ideas Clear, II (Chance, Love, and Logic (1923), Project Gutenberg text). (id peirce-illustrations-of-the-logic-of-science-q5)
Portrait: Charles Sanders Peirce, Napoleon Sarony, Public domain.
