How to Make Our Ideas Clear
Title
How to Make Our Ideas Clear
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Description
Originally published in the Popular Science Monthly, vol. 12 (January 1878): 286-302. This is the second installment in Peirce's "Illustrations of the Logic of Science" series.
According to Houser and Kloesel (Eds.), The Essential Peirce, vol. 1 (Bloomington: Indiana, 1992), p. 124, this paper "criticizes Descartes' doctrine of the clearness of ideas and goes on to develop Peirce's own theory, according to which there are three levels or grades of clearness. The theory of meaning associated with the third grade of clearness is represented in the pragmatic maxim," which Peirce then applies toward the clarification of conceptions like 'hardness', 'weight', and 'reality'.
Creator
Peirce, Charles Sanders (1839-1914)
Source
Popular Science Monthly, vol. 12 (January 1878): 286-302
Publisher
- (Full text) http://en.wikisource.org
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Date
1878-01
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Language
English
Type
Text
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Text
- Date Added
- November 16, 2012
- Collection
- Illustrations of the Logic of Science, 1877-1878
- Item Type
- Document
- Tags
- authority, belief, clarity, Descartes, intuition, Leibniz, pragmatic maxim, pragmatism, reality, science
- Citation
- Peirce, Charles Sanders (1839-1914), “How to Make Our Ideas Clear,” Charles S. Peirce, Philosophical Writings, accessed March 29, 2024, https://cspeirce.omeka.net/items/show/3.