On the first logical interlude of the first paragraph of section III of C.S. Peirce's "How To Make Our Ideas Clear"
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Charles Sanders Peirce begins the first paragraph of section III (FP3) of “How To Make Our Ideas Clear” (HTM) by presenting his pragmatic definition of hardness (PDH) as the answer to Q1 (what is the pragmatic definition of hardness?). To follow PDH, one might expect Peirce to consider some particular straightforward cases of hard things and what PDH has to say about them. For example, what does it mean to say ‘the Hope diamond is hard’. CSP does not do this. Instead, in the next 21 sentences of FP3, Peirce is up to something else.
On the first logical interlude of the first paragraph of section III of C.S. Peirce's "How To Make Our Ideas Clear"
On the first logical interlude of the first…
On the first logical interlude of the first paragraph of section III of C.S. Peirce's "How To Make Our Ideas Clear"
Charles Sanders Peirce begins the first paragraph of section III (FP3) of “How To Make Our Ideas Clear” (HTM) by presenting his pragmatic definition of hardness (PDH) as the answer to Q1 (what is the pragmatic definition of hardness?). To follow PDH, one might expect Peirce to consider some particular straightforward cases of hard things and what PDH has to say about them. For example, what does it mean to say ‘the Hope diamond is hard’. CSP does not do this. Instead, in the next 21 sentences of FP3, Peirce is up to something else.