[CG] Re: Pragmatic Maxim

Seven Ways of Looking at a Pragmatic Maxim • 2 • https://inquiryintoinquiry.com/2023/08/07/pragmatic-maxim-2/ All, The second excerpt presents another version of the pragmatic maxim, a recommendation about a way of clarifying meaning that can be taken to stake out the general philosophy of pragmatism. <QUOTE CSP:> ❝Pragmaticism was originally enounced in the form of a maxim, as follows: ❝Consider what effects that might conceivably have practical bearings you conceive the objects of your conception to have. Then, your conception of those effects is the whole of your conception of the object. ❝I will restate this in other words, since ofttimes one can thus eliminate some unsuspected source of perplexity to the reader. This time it shall be in the indicative mood, as follows: ❝The entire intellectual purport of any symbol consists in the total of all general modes of rational conduct which, conditionally upon all the possible different circumstances and desires, would ensue upon the acceptance of the symbol.❞ (Peirce, CP 5.438, 1878/1905). </QUOTE> Regards, Jon cc: https://independent.academia.edu/JonAwbrey cc: https://mathstodon.xyz/@Inquiry/110854857966219596