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Comment author: fubarobfusco 19 March 2011 08:15:57PM 2 points [-]

I'm reminded of Peirce's invention of the term pragmaticism, as distinct from "pragmatism". For that matter, there are significant points of similarity between LW-type rationality and pragmaticism, such as the notion of belief being evidence-based anticipation of future experience.

Comment author: Zetetic 15 May 2011 01:54:39AM 0 points [-]

Oh my..... this is the first time I've had the words stolen out from under my fingers before I could post them. Hmm, and beaten to the punch on bringing up Pierce to boot.