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Bain's Theory of Belief and the Genesis of Pragmatism
- Transactions of the Charles S. Peirce Society: A Quarterly Journal in American Philosophy
- Indiana University Press
- Volume 57, Number 3, Summer 2021
- pp. 319-340
- Article
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Abstract
Abstract:
William James credited C.S. Peirce with the invention of philosophical pragmatism. In turn, Peirce described Alexander Bain's theory of belief as the philosophy's axiom. This essay explicates Bain's theory of belief and uses it to define pragmatism as a theory of mind. It then derives both Peirce's semantic pragmatism and James' vision for academic philosophy as corollaries, vindicating Peirce's characterization of the idea's history.
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