FP3 (the first paragraph of section III of Charles Sanders Peirce’s “How To Make Our Ideas Clear”) is a 23-sentence paragraph that is nominally devoted to the application of PM (the pragmatic maxim) to the physical conception of hardness. Peirce answers Q1 (title above) in the second sentence of FP3. Call this pragmatic definition of hardness, PDH:
Q1: What is the pragmatic definition of hardness?
Q1: What is the pragmatic definition of…
Q1: What is the pragmatic definition of hardness?
FP3 (the first paragraph of section III of Charles Sanders Peirce’s “How To Make Our Ideas Clear”) is a 23-sentence paragraph that is nominally devoted to the application of PM (the pragmatic maxim) to the physical conception of hardness. Peirce answers Q1 (title above) in the second sentence of FP3. Call this pragmatic definition of hardness, PDH: