# Pragmatic Maxim

> Consider what effects, that might conceivably have practical bea
> rings, we conceive the object of our conception to have. Then, o
> ur conception of these effects is the whole of our conception of
> the object.
>
> Charles Sanders Peirce, "How to Make Our Ideas Clear"

What am I, what are you? According to this maxim, you are all the
consequences of your existence in this world.