<p style="font-weight:bold;font-size:14pt;font-family:'Century Gothic', 'Apple Gothic', 'Lucida Sans Unicode', 'Franklin Gothic Medium';">How to Make Our Ideas Clear</p>
<p><a href="http://cspeirce.omeka.net/items/browse/tag/authority">authority</a>, <a style="font-size:10pt;font-family:'Century Gothic', 'Apple Gothic', 'Lucida Sans Unicode', 'Franklin Gothic Medium';" href="http://cspeirce.omeka.net/items/browse/tag/belief">belief</a>, <a style="font-size:10pt;font-family:'Century Gothic', 'Apple Gothic', 'Lucida Sans Unicode', 'Franklin Gothic Medium';" href="http://cspeirce.omeka.net/items/browse/tag/clarity">clarity</a>, <a style="font-size:10pt;font-family:'Century Gothic', 'Apple Gothic', 'Lucida Sans Unicode', 'Franklin Gothic Medium';" href="http://cspeirce.omeka.net/items/browse/tag/Descartes">Descartes</a>, <a style="font-size:10pt;font-family:'Century Gothic', 'Apple Gothic', 'Lucida Sans Unicode', 'Franklin Gothic Medium';" href="http://cspeirce.omeka.net/items/browse/tag/intuition">intuition</a>, <a style="font-size:10pt;font-family:'Century Gothic', 'Apple Gothic', 'Lucida Sans Unicode', 'Franklin Gothic Medium';" href="http://cspeirce.omeka.net/items/browse/tag/Leibniz">Leibniz</a>, <a style="font-size:10pt;font-family:'Century Gothic', 'Apple Gothic', 'Lucida Sans Unicode', 'Franklin Gothic Medium';" href="http://cspeirce.omeka.net/items/browse/tag/pragmatic+maxim">pragmatic maxim</a>, <a style="font-size:10pt;font-family:'Century Gothic', 'Apple Gothic', 'Lucida Sans Unicode', 'Franklin Gothic Medium';" href="http://cspeirce.omeka.net/items/browse/tag/pragmatism">pragmatism</a>, <a style="font-size:10pt;font-family:'Century Gothic', 'Apple Gothic', 'Lucida Sans Unicode', 'Franklin Gothic Medium';" href="http://cspeirce.omeka.net/items/browse/tag/reality">reality</a>, <a style="font-size:10pt;font-family:'Century Gothic', 'Apple Gothic', 'Lucida Sans Unicode', 'Franklin Gothic Medium';" href="http://cspeirce.omeka.net/items/browse/tag/science">science</a></p>
<p style="font-size:10pt;font-family:'Century Gothic', 'Apple Gothic', 'Lucida Sans Unicode', 'Franklin Gothic Medium';">Originally published in the <em>Popular Science Monthly</em>, vol. 12 (January 1878): 286-302. This is the second installment in Peirce's "Illustrations of the Logic of Science" series.</p>
<p style="font-size:10pt;font-family:'Century Gothic', 'Apple Gothic', 'Lucida Sans Unicode', 'Franklin Gothic Medium';">According to Houser and Kloesel (Eds.), <a style="font-size:10pt;font-family:'Century Gothic', 'Apple Gothic', 'Lucida Sans Unicode', 'Franklin Gothic Medium';" title="The Essential Peirce, vol. 1" href="http://www.amazon.com/The-Essential-Peirce-Volume-Philosophical/dp/0253207215/ref=sr_1_2?ie=UTF8&qid=1353786535&sr=8-2&keywords=the+essential+peirce" target="_blank">The Essential Peirce</a>, 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'.</p>
<p style="font-size:10pt;font-family:'Century Gothic', 'Apple Gothic', 'Lucida Sans Unicode', 'Franklin Gothic Medium';">Peirce, Charles Sanders (1839-1914)</p>
<p style="font-size:10pt;font-family:'Century Gothic', 'Apple Gothic', 'Lucida Sans Unicode', 'Franklin Gothic Medium';"><em>Popular Science Monthly</em>, vol. 12 (January 1878): 286-302</p>
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<p style="font-weight:bold;font-size:14pt;font-family:'Century Gothic', 'Apple Gothic', 'Lucida Sans Unicode', 'Franklin Gothic Medium';">The Fixation of Belief</p>
<p><a style="font-size:10pt;font-family:'Century Gothic', 'Apple Gothic', 'Lucida Sans Unicode', 'Franklin Gothic Medium';" href="http://cspeirce.omeka.net/items/browse/tag/belief">belief</a>, <a style="font-size:10pt;font-family:'Century Gothic', 'Apple Gothic', 'Lucida Sans Unicode', 'Franklin Gothic Medium';" href="http://cspeirce.omeka.net/items/browse/tag/Darwin">Darwin</a>, <a style="font-size:10pt;font-family:'Century Gothic', 'Apple Gothic', 'Lucida Sans Unicode', 'Franklin Gothic Medium';" href="http://cspeirce.omeka.net/items/browse/tag/doubt">doubt</a>, <a style="font-size:10pt;font-family:'Century Gothic', 'Apple Gothic', 'Lucida Sans Unicode', 'Franklin Gothic Medium';" href="http://cspeirce.omeka.net/items/browse/tag/inquiry">inquiry</a>, <a style="font-size:10pt;font-family:'Century Gothic', 'Apple Gothic', 'Lucida Sans Unicode', 'Franklin Gothic Medium';" href="http://cspeirce.omeka.net/items/browse/tag/scientific+method">scientific method</a></p>
<p style="font-size:10pt;font-family:'Century Gothic', 'Apple Gothic', 'Lucida Sans Unicode', 'Franklin Gothic Medium';">Originally published in the <em>Popular Science Monthly</em>, vol. 12 (November 1877): 1-15. This is the first installment of six papers in Peirce's "Illustrations of the Logic of Science" series.</p>
<p style="font-size:10pt;font-family:'Century Gothic', 'Apple Gothic', 'Lucida Sans Unicode', 'Franklin Gothic Medium';">According to Houser and Kloesel (Eds.), <a style="font-size:10pt;font-family:'Century Gothic', 'Apple Gothic', 'Lucida Sans Unicode', 'Franklin Gothic Medium';" title="The Essential Peirce, vol. 1" href="http://www.amazon.com/The-Essential-Peirce-Volume-Philosophical/dp/0253207215/ref=sr_1_2?ie=UTF8&qid=1353786535&sr=8-2&keywords=the+essential+peirce" target="_blank"><em>The Essential Peirce</em></a>, vol. 1 (Bloomington: Indiana, 1992), p. 108, "the objective of the 'Illustrations' is 'to describe the method of scientific investigation'." In this, the first paper, "he develops his thesis that thought is a form of inquiry, and belief the cessation of doubt, and he emphasizes the self-corrective nature of the scientific enterprise. He further discusses four methods of fixing belief (those of tenacity and of authority, the a priori method, and the method of science) and argues that only the fourth, which along appeals to an 'external permanency,' can lead to success in the long run."</p>
<p style="font-size:10pt;font-family:'Century Gothic', 'Apple Gothic', 'Lucida Sans Unicode', 'Franklin Gothic Medium';">Peirce, Charles Sanders (1839-1914)</p>
<p style="font-size:10pt;font-family:'Century Gothic', 'Apple Gothic', 'Lucida Sans Unicode', 'Franklin Gothic Medium';"><em>Popular Science Monthly</em>, vol. 12 (November 1877): 1-15</p>
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