“The idea of an object is the idea of its effects, of what it will do, and of what will happen to it, under various conditions.”

Source: [The Review of Metaphysics, 1, 4, June 1948, 32–58, Pragmatism and Existence, https://www.pdcnet.org/revmetaph/content/revmetaph_1948_0001_0004_0032_0058]

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