The Third Grade of Clearness, Pragmatic Definition, and The Pragmatic Method
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In “How to Make Our Ideas Clear” (HTM), Charles Sanders Peirce (CSP) presents three “grades of clearness” and advocates for the third grade over the other two. These two grades come from the clear (1) and distinct (2) ideas of Descartes and Leibniz and the third grade is what has come to be known as CSP’s “pragmatic maxim”. For reference, here is CSP’s pragmatic maxim from HTM: “Consider what effects, which might conceivably have practical bearings, we conceive the object of our conception to have. Then, our conception of these effects is the whole of our conception of the object.” Next, I will discuss the difference between the pragmatic
The Third Grade of Clearness, Pragmatic Definition, and The Pragmatic Method
The Third Grade of Clearness, Pragmatic…
The Third Grade of Clearness, Pragmatic Definition, and The Pragmatic Method
In “How to Make Our Ideas Clear” (HTM), Charles Sanders Peirce (CSP) presents three “grades of clearness” and advocates for the third grade over the other two. These two grades come from the clear (1) and distinct (2) ideas of Descartes and Leibniz and the third grade is what has come to be known as CSP’s “pragmatic maxim”. For reference, here is CSP’s pragmatic maxim from HTM: “Consider what effects, which might conceivably have practical bearings, we conceive the object of our conception to have. Then, our conception of these effects is the whole of our conception of the object.” Next, I will discuss the difference between the pragmatic