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1909 March 26 9:30 AM
Meaning
2
among friends of the writer by the name he had proposed for
it, which was "Pragmatism".
It has been generally acknowledged for the last half century, at
least, that no man's philosophy can be well-understood until one
knows how he came by it; and since the writer has had more
that than the usual difficulty in fulfilling the always difficult
task of rendering his philosophical position clear, it seems
well that he should make a clean breast of his philosophical
life in the following paragraphs.

I was born in 1839 in Cambridge, Massachusetts, my father
being recognized as the leading foremost American mathematician. His
house might almost be said to have been a rendez-vous of the
leading men of science of the country, or, at any rate for those

1909 March 26 9:30 AM
Meaning
2
amoung friends of the writer by the name he had proposed for
it, which was "Pragmatism".
It has been generally acknowledged for the last half century, at
least, that no man's philosophy can be well-understood until one
knows how he came by it; and since the writer has had more
that than the usual difficulty in fulfilling the always difficult
task of rendering his philosophical position clear, it seems
well that he should make a clean breast of his philosophical
life in the following paragraphs.

I was born in 1839 in Cambridge, Massachusetts, my father
being recognized as the leading foremost American mathematician. His
house might almost be said to have been a rendez-vous of the
leading men of science of the country, or, at any rate for those