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If anyone thinks that an explanation on this order, whatever degree of directness and explicitness one perceives it to have, ought to be enough to correct any amount of residual confusion, then one is failing to take into consideration the persistence of a ''particulate'' interpretation, that is, a favored, isolated, and partial interpretation, once it has taken or mistaken its moment.

If anyone thinks that an explanation on this order, whatever degree of directness and explicitness one perceives it to have, ought to be enough to correct any amount of residual confusion, then one is failing to take into consideration the persistence of a ''particulate'' interpretation, that is, a favored, isolated, and partial interpretation, once it has taken or mistaken its moment.

A sixth excerpt, PM₆, is useful in stating the bearing of the pragmatic maxim on the topic of reflection, namely, that it makes all of pragmatism boil down to nothing more or less than a method of reflection.

A sixth excerpt, PM_6, is useful in stating the bearing of

the pragmatic maxim on the topic of reflection, namely, that

it makes all of pragmatism boil down to nothing more or less

than a method of reflection.

| The study of philosophy consists, therefore, in reflexion, and pragmatism

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|(Peirce, CP 5.13 note 1, 1902).

<p>The study of philosophy consists, therefore, in reflexion, and pragmatism is that method of reflexion which is guided by constantly holding in view its purpose and the purpose of the ideas it analyzes, whether these ends be of the nature and uses of action or of thought. &hellip;</p>

The seventh excerpt is a late reflection on the reception of pragmatism.

The seventh excerpt is a late reflection on the reception of pragmatism.

With a sense of exasperation that is almost palpable, this comment tries

With a sense of exasperation that is almost palpable, this comment tries