On 8/12/2017 4:23 PM, Helmut Raulien wrote:
I have problems with the term "final" or "end" anyway. I guess that the pragmatic maxim is only a proposal how to make our ideas clearer, in order to be able to talk more reasonably, but not absolutely end-clear.
That 1878 article about the gates of perception and action was early in Peirce's career. He certainly knew logic, and he realized that many arguments take a long path from the starting observations to the concluding actions. In his late writings on the logic of pragmatism, he emphasized the multiple cycles of observations, induction, abduction, deduction, testing (actions) and repeat. He never gave up the idea that meaningful concepts must be related to perception and action. But there may be multiple steps along the way. John
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