[Pragmatism is] in its bare bones, the view that the meaning of ideas is simply to be found in terms of their consequences. … The pragmatists were only interested in results. It was their distinctive feature and their proudest boast. That, therefore, is how they must be judged. To do so in detail here would require an unwarranted excursus. (Robin Harris, Post-Civil War Thought; Four American Thinkers Who Made America Modern, The Washington Times, 05/27/2001, p. B8.)
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