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By Christopher Zoukis Image courtesy opencourtbooks.com

Open Court Publishing Company published affordable copies of the classics of philosophy, along with original scholarly books in philosophy, science and religion. Some of which were vague presentations of newfangled ideas. One of the newfangled ideas was Pragmatism, which reconciled logic as a system of symbols. In other words, logic was not a rational system of correct reasoning based on cause and effect. Rather it was symbolic, that is,...