It appears less as a solution, then, than as a program for more work, and more particularly as an indication of the ways in which existing realities may be /changed/."

"But if you follow the pragmatic method, you cannot look on any such word [as indicating abstract principles] as closing your quest. You must bring out of each word its practical cash-value, set it at work within the stream of your experience. ...

I don't know enough about history of legal thought to claim any proper genealogical relationship, but a famous, influential, and early instance of the metaphor comes from William James in his chapter "What Pragmatism Means" from /Pragmatism/.

The key to making this into an awesome comedy-drama would be to lean hard into the history of science literature. I want a couple paragraphs of 13th century natural philosophy jargon, terminating in the craziest-but-true medical interventions you could think of. And sometimes they do get better.

But do you honestly believe his gear was specced for sandwich-based attacks?

I probably haven't thought about that song in 25 years, and this post brings back the exact cadence of that line.