Pragmatism is a philosophical doctrine formulated and defended by Charles S. Peirce, William James, John Dewey, George Herbert Mead, and K. A. Lewis.
It was originally formulated by Peirce as a maxim about how to clarify our ideas.
Related: Grades of Clarity
Pragmatism developed into a theory of meaning and later into a theory of truth.
As a theory of meaning, pragmatism insists on the need to interpret our statements in terms that are acceptable to our behavior.
As a theory of truth, he suggests that we accept truth in terms of ideas that facilitate our communication with experience.
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