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Ideas for H.Putnam/P.Oppenheim, Danielle Macbeth and Edward Conze

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18. Thought / D. Concepts / 1. Concepts / a. Nature of concepts

19088	For pragmatists a concept means its consequences [Macbeth]
	Full Idea: In the pragmatist view, the meaning of a concept is exhausted by its consequences.
	From: Danielle Macbeth (Pragmatism and Objective Truth [2007], p.173)
	A reaction: I'm unclear why the concept of a volcanic eruption only concerns its dire consequences, and is supposed to contain nothing of its causes. Pragmatists seem to be all future, and no past. Very American.