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make matters no worse for you, while if they do lie that way, your going on that assumption may save you the trick. Now when I say I am only talking logic and not metaphysics, I mean that ^{for the time being} I do not care one straw what the occult truth maybe about the real natures of qualities, but all I care for is how ^{under what aspect or form of thought} you ought to regard them if you do not want to fall into grievous practical errors and to miss important practical truths. There is a logical doctrine called Pragmatism. It is the doctrine that what any word or thought means consists in what it can contribute to an expectation about future experience, and nothing more. This doctrine which I now has been supposed to have sceptical

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tendencies; and as the author of it, I have been been set down in one History of Philosophy as a sceptic, and in another criticism of my opinions I have been called a second Hume. It is strange to me that it should not have occured to those writers that a person who thinks that as soon as it is fully proved that holding that the going upon any given proposition will be salutory, it is proved that all that proposition can possibly mean is true, as more likely, on account of this opinion, I believe will rather be led by this opinion to believe more things than fewer. At the same time it is obvious enough that it is a doctrine that may very easily be carried to extremes, if one does not mind one's logic very closely It is like walking among eggs. I do not