For the past several months  I’ve obviously been experimenting with vocabulary from the tradition of pragmatist philosophy – a tradition with which I have a somewhat ambivalent relationship I’m currently working through James and Dewey  preparing for some more extensive writing on the topic  but wanted to put in a placeholder for a few of the elements of the tradition I think I’d need to disentangle  in order to make sense of what I feel comfortable appropriating  in which ways  from this tradition