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Prag 10

intention of the maxim remains just what it originally was. Although prgamatism is thus nothing more that a rule for ascertaining the meaning of words and it is indispensible if we are to keep our logic straight that we should not confuse the ascertainment of the meaning of a proposition with the ascertainment of its worth yet it is quite remarkable how many of the hardknots of metaphysics fall apart at a light touch when once they have received their pragmatistic interpretations. I cannot undertake to illustrate this point here [?]. I will now give an example of the applicaton of the maxim to it own proper business. As the time of the first enunciation of the maxim a dispute had rage for a full generation

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