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'Pragmata' are things in their plurality ; and in that early Cali- fornia address, when I described pragmatism as holding that 'the meaning of any proposi- tion can always be brought down to some par- ticular consequence in our future practical ex- perience, whether passive or active,' I expressly added these qualifying words : ' the point lying rather in the fact that the experience must be particular than in the fact that it must be active,' — by 'active' meaning here 'practical' in the narro...w literal sense.' But particular consequences can perfectly well be of a theo- ' The ambiguity of the word 'practical' comes out well in these words of a recent would-be reporter of our views : 'Prag- matism is an Anglo-Saxon reaction against the intellectualism and rationalism of the Latin mind. . . . Man, each indi- vidual man is the measure of things. He is able to conceive none but relative truths, that is to say, illusions. What these illusions are worth is revealed to him, not by general theory, but by individual practice.
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