ONT Re: Differences That Make A Difference
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| Mr. Peirce, after pointing out that our beliefs are really
| rules for action, said that, to develop a thought's meaning
| we need only determine what conduct it is fitted to produce:
| that conduct is for us its sole significance. And the tangible
| fact at the root of all our thought-distinctions, however subtle,
| is that there is no one of them so fine as to consist in anything
| but a possible difference of practice. (James, p. 46).
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| William James,
|'Pragmatism, A New Name for Some Old Ways of Thinking',
| Longmans, Green, and Company, New York, NY, 1907.
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