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The American philosopher Charles Sanders Peirce (1839-1914) is generally credited as the founder of the school of thought known as pragmatism (although he later rejected the term in favor of another term he coined for himself: pragmaticism). Peirce wanted to show that the meaning of a word always depends on some action or some practical consequence. Consider, for example, the word "rain. According to Peirce, this word has meaning only insofar as it relates to some practical consideration: "It is raining outside, so I should protect my suave new hairdo." experience Innate ideas Peirce had a strong scientific background and generally agreed with the empiricist view that meaning is based on . As such, he had a strong dislike of vague, abstract, speculative, or metaphysical approaches to philosophy context independent context dependent Peirce held that meaningful terms are because they are usually interpreted as and that metaphysical terms are experience. meaningless meaningful connected to separate from

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Peirce had a strong scientific background and generally agreed with the empiricist view that meaning is based on experience. As such, he had a strong dislike of vague, abstract, speculative, or metaphysical approaches to philosophy.

Peirce held that meaningful terms are context dependent and that metaphysical terms are meaningless because they are usually interpreted as separate from experience.