Submitted by dfergus1 on April 13, 2008

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William James

The Philosophy of William James
In a paper on "How To Make Your Ideas Clear," contributed to the Popular Science Monthly in 1878, Charles Sanders Pierce first used the word "pragmatism" to designate a principle put forward by him as a rule for guiding the scientist and the mathematician. The principle is that the meaning of any conception in the mind is the practical effect it will have in action. The rule remained unnoticed for twenty years, until Professor William James took it up in the address he delivered at the University of California in 1898. Pragmatism - the meaning of an idea or a proposition lies in its observable practical consequences.
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