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====Excerpt 9. Peirce (CP 5.448, n. 1)====

====Excerpt 9. Peirce (CP 5.448, n. 1)====

<p>At the same time, it is tolerably evident that the definition, as it stands, is not sufficiently explicit, and further, that at the present stage of our inquiry cannot be made altogether satisfactory.  For what is the interpretation alluded to?  To answer that convincingly would be either to establish or to refute the doctrine of pragmaticism.</p>

<p>At the same time, it is tolerably evident that the definition, as it stands, is not sufficiently explicit, and further, that at the present stage of our inquiry cannot be made altogether satisfactory.  For what is the interpretation alluded to?  To answer that convincingly would be either to establish or to refute the doctrine of pragmaticism.</p>

<p>[And so] the latitude of interpretation which constitutes the indeterminacy of a sign must be understood as a latitude which might affect the achievement of a purpose.  For two signs whose meanings are for all possible purposes equivalent are absolutely equivalent.  This, to be sure, is rank pragmaticism;  for a purpose is an affection of action.</p>

<p>[And so] the latitude of interpretation which constitutes the indeterminacy of a sign must be understood as a latitude which might affect the achievement of a purpose.  For two signs whose meanings are for all possible purposes equivalent are absolutely equivalent.  This, to be sure, is rank pragmaticism;  for a purpose is an affection of action.</p>

<p>C.S. Peirce, ''Collected Papers'', CP 5.448, n. 1</p>

<p align="right">C.S. Peirce, ''Collected Papers'', CP 5.448, n. 1</p>

====Excerpt 10. Peirce (CP 5.448, n. 1)====

====Excerpt 10. Peirce (CP 5.448, n. 1)====