Clark, list: I've had the same difficulty, myself, except I cannot make up my mind since I'm not even certain of the maxim to which is being referred.
For instance, here is an even different pragmatic maxim; one that calls attention to making the speech outside of ourselves: "I have long ago come to be guided by this maxim: that as long as it is *practically certain that we cannot* directly, nor with much accuracy even indirectly, observe what passes in the consciousness of any other person, while it is far from certain that we can do so (and accurately record what [we] can even glimpse at best but very glibberly) even in the case of what shoots through our own minds, *it is much safer to define all mental characters as far as possible in terms of their outward manifestations*." ~Peirce Best, Jerry Rhee On Wed, Sep 28, 2016 at 2:02 PM, Clark Goble <[email protected]> wrote: > > On Sep 28, 2016, at 7:55 AM, Jon Alan Schmidt <[email protected]> > wrote: > > The PM pertains primarily to deduction (explication), not abduction; which > is why it contributes to security, but not to uberty. I wonder if another > way to highlight the distinction is to assign the PM to logical critic, but > pragmaticism as a whole to methodeutic. > > > Why do you see it as primarily deductive? I ask since the mature form of > the pragmatic maxim is to consider all the possible consequences (meaning > practical differences we can detect). That seems inherently an abductive > consideration although the actual measurement would be a combination of > deductive and inductive against a perhaps more abductive theoretical > scaffolding. But any particular detection that something is hard is > different from the meaning of say a diamond being hard. > > > ----------------------------- > PEIRCE-L subscribers: Click on "Reply List" or "Reply All" to REPLY ON > PEIRCE-L to this message. PEIRCE-L posts should go to > [email protected] . To UNSUBSCRIBE, send a message not to PEIRCE-L > but to [email protected] with the line "UNSubscribe PEIRCE-L" in the > BODY of the message. More at http://www.cspeirce.com/peirce-l/peirce-l.htm > . > > > > > >
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