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make matters no worse for you, while if they do
lie that way, your going on that assumption
may save you the trick. Now when I say I am
only talking logic and not metaphysics, I mean
that ^{for the time being} I do not care one straw what the occult truth
maybe about the real natures of qualities, but all
I care for is how ^{under what aspect or form of thought} you ought to regard them if you do
not want to fall into grievous practical errors and
to miss important practical truths. There is
a logical doctrine called Pragmatism. It is
the doctrine that what any word or thought
means consists in what it can contribute
to an expectation about future
experience, and nothing more. This
doctrine which I now has been supposed to have sceptical