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.

— C.S. Peirce • The Maxim of Pragmatism

Re: Facebook Discussion • Tim Browning

TB:

Makes me wonder if all that is the case, i.e. the universe, is the existence of objects (materialism) or information (idealism).

“Objects of your conception” seems to imply a transcendent perspective that can distinguish between concept and object.  Am I overthinking this?

Hi Tim,

It helps to read “object” in a fuller sense than we often do in billiard‑ball philosophies, as a lot gets lost in the translation from the Greek “pragma” from which pragmatism naturally takes its cue.  For a sample of that fuller sense see the following lexicon entry.

• πρᾶγμα • Liddell, H.G., and Scott, R. (1925), A Greek-English Lexicon (1940 edition),
  Perseus Digital Library.

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