Back to AtD. Maths again, pragmatic persppective

[Mark Kohut]

Just a reminder that the usual usage of the word 'pragmatic' in these
United States means that what is referred to 'works' .  Philosophically,
to simplify of course, pragmatism or pragmaticism [Pierce] means that concepts referred to
can be understood by their effects, their consequences, their implications. 

Thus Dewey sez: "the failure of empiricism to account for mathematical ideas is due to 
the failure to connect them to acts performed."....but contra Hume and Mill [Dewey criticizes
Mill's famous logic for buried identity smuggling] 'experimental empiricism ..recognizes that 
experience, the actual experience of men, is one of doing acts, performing operations, cutting,
marking off, dividing up, extending, piecing together, joining 
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