be taken
to stake out the general POV of pragmatism.    (019)

| 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).    (020)

Over time, Peirce attempted to express the basic idea
contained in the &quot;pragmatic maxim&quot; (PM) in numerous