Sounds similar to Pierce's thoughts on pragmat{i|ici}sm: Consider what effects, that might conceivably have practical bearings, you conceive the objects of you

Sounds similar to Pierce's thoughts on pragmat{i|ici}sm: Consider what effects, that might conceivably have practical bearings, you conceive the objects of your conception to have. Then, your conception of those effects is the whole of your conception of the object Other than Pierce, there are other thinkers who were pragmatists of one variety or the other that had a big influence on american thinking like Ralph Waldo Emerson, John Dewey, Reinhold Niebuhr and William James. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pragmaticism#Pragmatic_maxim http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pragmaticism#Pragmatic_maxim http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pragmatism#A_list_of_pragmatists http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pragmatism#A_list_of_pragmatist...