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Holmes, Pragmatism and Nature, is a long and circuitous history with pragmatism. It begins first with something of the person, his influences, leading to the wider trajectory of American pragmatism.

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Schulkin, J. (2019). Experience, Prediction, Surviving. In: Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr., Pragmatism and Neuroscience. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-23100-2_3

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