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Quotation by Charles Sanders Peirce
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Harvard University Press (1934)Collected Papers Harvard University Press (1934)Collected Papers (lecture 3 of Lowell Lectures of 1903) Harvard University Press (1934)"Grounds of Validity of the Laws of Logic: Further Consequences of Four Incapacities" Harvard University Press (1934)"How to Make Our Ideas Clear" Pragmatism: The Classical Writings, ed. H.S. Thayer (1878)Related Subjects
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Whenever a man acts purposively, he acts under a belief in some experimental phenomenon. Consequently, the sum of the experimental phenomena that a proposition implies makes up its entire bearing upon human conduct.
Charles Sanders Peirce (1839–1914), U.S. philosopher, logician. Originally published in The Monist (1905). "What Pragmatism Is," Collected Papers, vol. 5, para. 427, Harvard University Press (1934).
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