Given abduction's insecurity, it should have consequences with conceivable practical bearing leading at least to mental tests, and, in science, lending themselves to scientific testing.

Consider what effects that might 'conceivably' have practical bearings you 'conceive' the objects of your 'conception' to have.

Peirce's maxim of pragmatism is as follows: "Consider what effects, which might conceivably have practical bearings, we conceive the object of our conception to have.

Beyond measurement and bragging rights, such exercises do have practical bearing in some cases.

This belief has a practical bearing on bride-price transactions.

You have satisfied me as to the reality of the power, but I do not yet perceive its practical bearings.' '

The pragmatic maxim is: "Consider what effects, that might conceivably have practical bearings, we conceive the object of our conception to have.

Of course all this has a very practical bearing upon modern life, the position of women in it, and the so-called reforms.

Neither the question of the entry of the soul before birth nor the claim to salvation after death have any practical bearing on the subject.

The third excerpt puts a gloss on the meaning of a practical bearing and provides an alternative statement of the maxim.