Dear list:
It is exacting to read Peirce only literally.
But in numerous places, Peirce lets us know that he is aware of us.
For example, from the Commens Dictionary:
“… Should somebody here whip out his lead pencil in order to note on the
margin of the page that no such immiscibility
Dear list:
In *Pragmatism and the Normativity of Assertion,* Helmut Pape begins his
essay with a quote by Peirce:
“*No general description of the mode of advance of human knowledge can be
just which leaves out of account the social aspect of knowledge…*
*What a thing society is!...”*
Then
Dear list:
Wonderful! Thank you for stating your position clearly.
So now, all we need decide is whether CP 5.189 is or is not a pragmatic
maxim.
But before that, we need to decide whether it is or is not a maxim.
For a pragmatic maxim belongs to the set of maxims.
Here are some
I agree with Jon, of course. He is right about the confusion, and the issue I
tried to address in my previous post was to find some common unifying factor,
not necessarily the best statement of the pragmatic maxim. Nonetheless, I
believe there are better and worse versions, and that these are
