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'.
]]>How to Make Our Ideas Clear
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'.
Peirce, Charles Sanders (1839-1914)
Popular Science Monthly, vol. 12 (January 1878): 286-302
1878-01
English
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