han this:
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| Pragmatism is the principle that every theoretical judgment expressible
| in a sentence in the indicative mood is a confused form of thought whose
| only meaning, if it has any, lies in its tendency to enforce a corresponding
| practical maxim expressible as a conditional sentence having its apodosis in
| the imperative mood.
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|(Peirce, CP 5.18, 1903).    (033)

I am including Peirce's preamble to his restatement of the principle
because I think that the note of irony and the foreshadowing of