Full Idea
In the pragmatist view, the meaning of a concept is exhausted by its consequences.
Gist of Idea
For pragmatists a concept means its consequences
Source
Danielle Macbeth (Pragmatism and Objective Truth [2007], p.173)
Book Reference
'New Pragmatists', ed/tr. Misak,Cheryl [OUP 2009], 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.