Charles Sanders Peirce · Philosophy
Peirce’s founding rule of pragmatism - that the whole meaning of any conception lies in its conceivable practical effects - and the three grades of clearness that lead up to it, grounded in his theory that a belief is a rule for action.
You learned that Peirce added a third, higher grade of clearness beyond ‘clear’ and ‘distinct’: trace a conception’s conceivable practical effects, because those effects are the whole of its meaning. Explain the maxim and why he tied the meaning of a thought to the habit of action it prod…
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