Kirsti, Jon A.S. gave five of Peirce’s formulations of the “pragmatic maxim,” but I haven’t found the place in EP2 where “he gave a final stamp of his approval by explicitly NAMING them AS The first and The second formulation of The Pragmatic Maxim (in EP vol 2).” Can you tell us where to find that? Otherwise, as Jon said, we can’t tell which formulation is the “second,” or discuss how a third might differ from it.
By the way, my book is not about Peirce; it’s about the philosophical issues involving signs, and though it quotes Peirce quite a lot, it’s about those semiotic issues rather than issues of Peirce interpretation. I’ve had my say about those interpretive issues elsewhere, such as peirce-l and a couple of papers, but not very much in Turning Signs. Gary f. -----Original Message----- From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: 14-Feb-18 14:23 To: PEIRCE L <[email protected]> Subject: RE: [PEIRCE-L] Pragmatic Maxims and mediation (Was Lowell Lectures) Gary f., list, Your response presented as full an understanding of essential points in my post as I could ever hope. Even more, I was greatly and happily surprised. And yes, of course there are any formulations of the ideas conveyed by the two short expressions he gave a final stamp of his approval by explicitly NAMING them AS The first and The second formulation of The Pragmatic Maxim (in EP vol 2). (Note the cardinals!) He writes about them all the time, of course. In search of as good a linguistic expression as he was ever able to come up with. But, at a later date he takes up the First of these feeling a need for a Second, which does not (in any way) contradict with accepting the First, but taking it into a further stage, so to speak. I have not read your book, Gary. I do not read about Peirce, have not done so for centuries. Which, just as you write, gives much more weight and value to us both.
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