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CP5 Pragmatism and Pragmaticism
Harvard University Press 1934

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Contents


Introduction
Editorial Note
Preface
  1. A Definition of Pragmatic and Pragmatism 1
  2. The Architectonic Construction of Pragmatism 5
  3. Historical Affinities and Genesis 11

BOOK I. LECTURES ON PRAGMATISM

LECTURE I. PRAGMATISM: THE NORMATIVE SCIENCES
  1. Two Statements of the Pragmatic Maxim 14
  2. The Meaning of Probability 19
  3. The Meaning of "Practical" Consequences 25
  4. The Relations of the Normative Sciences 34
LECTURE II. THE UNIVERSAL CATEGORIES
  1. Presentness 41
  2. Struggle 45
  3. Laws: Nominalism 59
LECTURE III. THE CATEGORIES CONTINUED
  1. Degenerate Thirdness 66
  2. The Seven Systems of Metaphysics 77
  3. The Irreducibility of the Categories 82
LECTURE IV. THE REALITY OF THIRDNESS
  1. Scholastic Realism 93
  2. Thirdness and Generality 102
  3. Normative Judgments 108
  4. Perceptual Judgments 115
LECTURE V. THREE KINDS OF GOODNESS
  1. The Divisions of Philosophy 120
  2. Ethical and Esthetical Goodness 129
  3. Logical Goodness 137
LECTURE VI. THREE TYPES OF REASONING
  1. Perceptual Judgments and Generality 151
  2. The Plan and Steps of Reasoning 158
  3. Inductive Reasoning 167
  4. Instinct and Abduction 171
  5. The Meaning of an Argument 175
LECTURE VII. PRAGMATISM AND ABDUCTION
  1. The Three Cotary Propositions 180
  2. Abduction and Perceptual Judgments 182
  3. Pragmatism -- the Logic of Abduction 195
  4. The Two Functions of Pragmatism206

BOOK II. PUBLISHED PAPERS

I. QUESTIONS CONCERNING CERTAIN FACULTIES CLAIMED FOR MAN
  Q1. Whether by the simple contemplation of a cognition, independently of any previous knowledge and without reasoning from signs, we are enabled rightly to judge whether that cognition has been determined by a previous cognition or whether it refers immediately to its object 213
  Q2. Whether we have an intuitive self-consciousness 225
  Q3. Whether we have an intuitive power of distinguishing between the subjective elements of different kinds of cognitions 238
  Q4. Whether we have any power of introspection, or whether our whole knowledge of the internal world is derived from the observation of external facts 244
  Q5. Whether we can think without signs 250
  Q6. Whether a sign can have any meaning, if by its definition it is the sign of something absolutely incognizable 254
  Q7. Whether there is any cognition not determined by a previous cognition 259
II. SOME CONSEQUENCES OF FOUR INCAPACITIES
  1. The Spirit of Cartesianism 264
  2. Mental Action 266
  3. Thought-Signs 283
  4. Man, a Sign 310
III. GROUNDS OF VALIDITY OF THE LAWS OF LOGIC: FURTHER CONSEQUENCES OF FOUR INCAPACITIES
  1. Objections to the Syllogism 318
  2. The Three Kinds of Sophisms 333
  3. The Social Theory of Logic 341
IV. THE FIXATION OF BELIEF
  1. Science and Logic 358
  2. Guiding Principles 365
  3. Doubt and Belief 370
  4. The End of Inquiry 374
  5. Methods of Fixing Belief 377
V. HOW TO MAKE OUR IDEAS CLEAR
  1. Clearness and Distinctness 388
  2. The Pragmatic Maxim 394
  3. Some Applications of the Pragmatic Maxim 403
  4. Reality 405
VI. WHAT PRAGMATISM IS
  1. The Experimentalists' View of Assertion 411
  2. Philosophical Nomenclature 413
  3. Pragmaticism 414
  4. Pragmaticism and Hegelian Absolute Idealism 436
VII. ISSUES OF PRAGMATICISM
  1. Six Characters of Critical Common-Sensism 438
  2. Subjective and Objective Modality453

BOOK III. UNPUBLISHED PAPERS

A. A SURVEY OF PRAGMATICISM
  1. The Kernel of Pragmatism 464
  2. The Valency of Concepts 469
  3. Logical Interpretants 470
  4. Other Views of Pragmatism 494
B. PRAGMATICISM AND CRITICAL COMMON-SENSISM 497
C. CONSEQUENCES OF CRITICAL COMMON-SENSISM
  1. Individualism 502
  2. Critical Philosophy and the Philosophy of Common-Sense 505
  3. The Generality of the Possible 526
  4. Valuation 533
D. BELIEF AND JUDGMENT
  1. Practical and Theoretical Beliefs 538
  2. Judgment and Assertion 546
E. TRUTH
  1. Truth as Correspondence 549
  2. Truth and Satisfaction 555
  3. Definitions of Truth 565
F. METHODS FOR ATTAINING TRUTH
  1. The First Rule of Logic 574
  2. On Selecting Hypotheses 590
APPENDIX
  1. Knowledge 605
  2. Representationism 607
  3. Ultimate 608
  4. Mr. Peterson's Proposed Discussion 610
  

CP5 Preface

1. A DEFINITION OF PRAGMATIC AND PRAGMATISM

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... of the end justifying the means.
Fact is whatever concept leads to some idealistic upshot.



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