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The pragmatic maxim of the mature Peirce regarding its special normative function
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Bent Sørensen
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October 28, 2009
Abstract
In order to gain the highest grade of clarity of his concepts, the polyhistor Charles S. Peirce (1839–1914) put forth a pragmatic maxim. Over the years, Peirce defined this maxim in many different ways. However, in the late definitions by the mature Peirce, we get a glimpse of a maxim, which has to serve the self-controlled scientific drive for growth in the concrete reasonableness; it follows that the maxim is endowed with a special normative function. In the following, we will try to understand this special normative function of the maxim in connection to Peirce's realistic teleological metaphysics and the idea of summum bonum.
Keywords:: Peirce; pragmaticism; the pragmatic maxim; summum bonum; the growth in the concrete reasonableness
Published Online: 2009-10-28
Published in Print: 2009-October
© 2009 by Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co. KG, D-10785 Berlin
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Keywords for this article
Peirce;
pragmaticism;
the pragmatic maxim;
summum bonum;
the growth in the concrete reasonableness
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