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Pragmaticism was originally enounced in the form of a maxim, as follows:  Consider what effects that might ''conceivably'' have practical bearings you ''conceive'' the objects of your ''conception'' to have.  Then, your ''conception'' of those effects is the whole of your ''conception'' of the object.  (Peirce, CP 5.438, 1878/1905).

<p>Pragmaticism was originally enounced in the form of a maxim, as follows:  Consider what effects that might ''conceivably'' have practical bearings you ''conceive'' the objects of your ''conception'' to have.  Then, your ''conception'' of those effects is the whole of your ''conception'' of the object.</p>

 

<p>I will restate this in other words, since ofttimes one can thus eliminate some unsuspected source of perplexity to the reader.  This time it shall be in the indicative mood, as follows:  The entire intellectual purport of any symbol consists in the total of all general modes of rational conduct which, conditionally upon all the possible different circumstances and desires, would ensue upon the acceptance of the symbol.  (Peirce, CP 5.438, 1878/1905).</p>

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