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===Note 14===

===Note 14===

We have been contemplating the virtues and the utilities of the pragmatic maxim as a standard heuristic in hermeneutics, that is, as a principle of interpretation that guides us in finding clarifying representations for a problematic corpus of symbols by means of their actions on other symbols or in terms of their effects on the syntactic contexts wherein we discover them or where we might conceive to distribute them.

We have been contemplating the virtues and the utilities of

the pragmatic maxim as a standard heuristic in hermeneutics,

that is, as a principle of interpretation that guides us in

finding clarifying representations for a problematic corpus

of symbols by means of their actions on other symbols or in

terms of their effects on the syntactic contexts wherein we

discover them or where we might conceive to distribute them.

I began this excursion by taking off from the moving platform

I began this excursion by taking off from the moving platform of differential logic and passing by way of the corresponding transformation groups, as they act on propositions, and on to an exercise in applying the pragmatic maxim, by contemplating the regular representations of groups as giving us one of the simplest conceivable, relatively concrete applications of the general principle of representation in question.

of differential logic and passing by way of the corresponding

transformation groups, as they act on propositions, and on to

an exercise in applying the pragmatic maxim, by contemplating

the regular representations of groups as giving us one of the

simplest conceivable, relatively concrete applications of the

general principle of representation in question.

There are a few problems of implementation that have to be worked out

There are a few problems of implementation that have to be worked out in practice, most of which are cleared up by keeping in mind which of several possible conventions we have chosen to follow at a given time.

in practice, most of which are cleared up by keeping in mind which of

several possible conventions we have chosen to follow at a given time.

But there does appear to remain this rather more substantial question:

But there does appear to remain this rather more substantial question: Are the effects we seek relates or correlates, or does it even matter?

Are the effects we seek relates or correlates, or does it even matter?

I will have to leave that question as it is for now,

I will have to leave that question as it is for now, in hopes that a solution will evolve itself in time.

in hopes that a solution will evolve itself in time.

===Note 15===

===Note 15===