How to Make Our Ideas ClearCharles Sanders Peirce
How to Make Our Ideas Clear
by Charles Sanders Peirce · first published 2005
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You might like American Pragmatism: CS Peirce, FP Ramsey, CI Lewis, William James, John Dewey, etc. Peirce's "How to Make Our Ideas Clear": https://courses.media.mit.edu/2004spring/mas966/Peirce%20187...
on “How Philosophers Think” ↗A good place to start is How to Make Our Ideas Clear[1]. [1]https://courses.media.mit.edu/2004spring/mas966/Peirce%20187...
on “The American Aristotle” ↗Check out Charles S. Peirce, American father of pragmaticism (not pragmatism). Two essays, 'The Fixation of Belief' and 'How to Make Our Ideas Clear' are particularly inspiring. Google 'peirce how to make our ideas clear', it's number one.
on “Ask HN: Best Philosophical Books?” ↗You clearly have a pragmatic mind so perhaps you’ll find this of interest. The problem of clarity has been recognized for a while. CS Peirce took a pretty good stab at it with How to Make Our Ideas Clear[1] and even that is a little dense. Partly due to 19th century prose though. [1] https://wps.prenhall.com/wps/media/objects/5396/5525631/docu...
on “Pseudophilosophy encourages confused, self-indulgent thinking” ↗On a New List of Categories[1] is a good entry point. I like How to Make Our Ideas Clear[2] as well, and it may be more germane to this topic. He was a prolific writer, and I've found everything of his I've read thought provoking. Edit: Some Consequences of Four Incapacities[3] is another…
on “What's the minimum number of words you'd need to define all other words? (2012)” ↗…of his less gifted but more politically astute childhood "friend" Simon Newcomb to obliterate his career and legacy. The Peirce gateway is full of great stuff[2][3]. This[4] is the companion paper to How To Make Our Ideas Clear. [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Existential_graph [2] https://arisbe.sitehost.iu.edu/ [3] https://arisbe.sitehost.iu.edu/menu/library/bycsp/bycsp.HTM [4] https://arisbe.sitehost.iu.edu/menu/library/bycsp/fixation/f...
on “How Philosophers Think” ↗Might be better to first read the previous year's Fixation of Belief, to which Peirce refers repeatedly in How To Make Our Ideas Clear. In it he defines and illustrates the method of authority, the method of tenacity, the a priori method etc. https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/The_Fixation_of_Belief It begins amusingly > Few persons care…
on “The American Aristotle” ↗