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Spencer’s Definition of Mind as Correspondence

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expression of philosophical Pragmatism

  • Charles Sanders Peirce, 1891.
    In pragmatism: The Metaphysical Club

    …published a paper in 1878, “Spencer’s Definition of Mind as Correspondence,” in which his pragmatism and analysis of thought and belief are clearly discernible, and two decades later, he introduced pragmatism to the public in a lecture. Although he fully credited Peirce with the idea, James’s exposition became famous and…

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