My notion of pragmatic is this: Consider what effects, that might conceivably have practical bearings, we conceive the object of our conception to have. Then

My notion of pragmatic is this: Consider what effects, that 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. By that standard this work appears, shall we say, limited. “Emergence” is a conceptual dead end that’s pragmatically comparable to a just-so story.