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In Peirce’s theory of cognition, the pragmatic maxim is the means used by reflection to connect signs with objects. The pragmatic maxim, in a formulation of 1878, taken up again in 1905, reads:
“Consider what effects that might conceivably have practical bearing you conceive the object of your conception to have. Then your conception of those effects is the whole of your conception of the object.”1
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Heinzmann, G. (1994). Mathematical Reasoning and Pragmatism in Peirce. In: Prawitz, D., Westerståhl, D. (eds) Logic and Philosophy of Science in Uppsala. Synthese Library, vol 236. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-015-8311-4_18
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