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The fourth excerpt illustrates one of Peirce's many attempts to get the sense of the pragmatic POV across by rephrasing the pragmatic maxim in an alternative way (PM₄).  In introducing this version, he addresses an order of prospective critics who do not deem a simple heuristic maxim, much less one that concerns itself with a routine matter of logical procedure, as forming a sufficient basis for a whole philosophy.

The fourth excerpt illustrates one of Peirce's many attempts to get the sense

of the pragmatic POV across by rephrasing the pragmatic maxim in an alternative

way (PM_4).  In introducing this version, he addresses an order of prospective

critics who do not deem a simple heuristic maxim, much less one that concerns

itself with a routine matter of logical procedure, as forming a sufficient

basis for a whole philosophy.

| On their side, one of the faults that I think they might find with me is that

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|(Peirce, CP 5.18, 1903).

<p>On their side, one of the faults that I think they might find with me is that I make pragmatism to be a mere maxim of logic instead of a sublime principle of speculative philosophy. In order to be admitted to better philosophical standing I have endeavored to put pragmatism as I understand it into the same form of a philosophical theorem. I have not succeeded any better than this:</p>

I am including Peirce's preamble to his restatement of the principle

<p>Pragmatism is the principle that every theoretical judgment expressible in a sentence in the indicative mood is a confused form of thought whose only meaning, if it has any, lies in its tendency to enforce a corresponding practical maxim expressible as a conditional sentence having its apodosis in the imperative mood.</p>

because I think that the note of irony and the foreshadowing of comedy

| align="right" | (Peirce, CP 5.18, 1903).

a "theoretical judgment expressible in a sentence in the indicative mood"

the full content of its own deeper meaning is something that remains to

be unwrapped, precisely through a self-application to its own expression

of the very principle it expresses. To wit, this statement, the form of

a declarative judgment, describes itself as a "confused form of thought",

in need of being amended, converted, and translated into its operational

The fifth excerpt, PM_5, is useful by way of additional clarification,

The fifth excerpt, PM_5, is useful by way of additional clarification,

and was aimed to correct a variety of historical misunderstandings that

and was aimed to correct a variety of historical misunderstandings that