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The '''pragmatic maxim''', also known as the ''maxim of [[pragmatism]]'' or the ''maxim of [[pragmaticism]]'', is a maxim of logic formulated by [[Charles Sanders Peirce]].  Serving as a normative recommendation or a regulative principle in the [[normative science]] of logic, its function is to guide the conduct of thought toward the achievement of its purpose, advising the addressee on an optimal way of "attaining clearness of apprehension".
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The '''pragmatic maxim''', also known as the ''maxim of pragmatism'' or the ''maxim of pragmaticism'', is a maxim of logic formulated by [[Charles Sanders Peirce]].  Serving as a normative recommendation or a regulative principle in the [[normative science]] of logic, its function is to guide the conduct of thought toward the achievement of its purpose, advising the addressee on an optimal way of &ldquo;attaining clearness of apprehension&rdquo;.
    
==Seven ways of looking at a pragmatic maxim==
 
==Seven ways of looking at a pragmatic maxim==
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<p>Pragmaticism was originally enounced in the form of a maxim, as follows:  Consider what effects that might ''conceivably'' have practical bearings you ''conceive'' the objects of your ''conception'' to have.  Then, your ''conception'' of those effects is the whole of your ''conception'' of the object.</p>
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Pragmaticism was originally enounced in the form of a maxim, as follows:  Consider what effects that might ''conceivably'' have practical bearings you ''conceive'' the objects of your ''conception'' to have.  Then, your ''conception'' of those effects is the whole of your ''conception'' of the object.  (Peirce, CP&nbsp;5.438, 1878/1905).
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<p>I will restate this in other words, since ofttimes one can thus eliminate some unsuspected source of perplexity to the reader.  This time it shall be in the indicative mood, as follows:  The entire intellectual purport of any symbol consists in the total of all general modes of rational conduct which, conditionally upon all the possible different circumstances and desires, would ensue upon the acceptance of the symbol.  (Peirce, CP&nbsp;5.438, 1878/1905).</p>
   
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<p>Such reasonings and all reasonings turn upon the idea that if one exerts certain kinds of volition, one will undergo in return certain compulsory perceptions.  Now this sort of consideration, namely, that certain lines of conduct will entail certain kinds of inevitable experiences is what is called a "practical consideration".  Hence is justified the maxim, belief in which constitutes pragmatism;  namely:</p>
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<p>Such reasonings and all reasonings turn upon the idea that if one exerts certain kinds of volition, one will undergo in return certain compulsory perceptions.  Now this sort of consideration, namely, that certain lines of conduct will entail certain kinds of inevitable experiences is what is called a &ldquo;practical consideration&rdquo;.  Hence is justified the maxim, belief in which constitutes pragmatism;  namely:</p>
 
   
 
   
 
<p>''In order to ascertain the meaning of an intellectual conception one should consider what practical consequences might conceivably result by necessity from the truth of that conception;  and the sum of these consequences will constitute the entire meaning of the conception.''  (Peirce, CP&nbsp;5.9, 1905).</p>
 
<p>''In order to ascertain the meaning of an intellectual conception one should consider what practical consequences might conceivably result by necessity from the truth of that conception;  and the sum of these consequences will constitute the entire meaning of the conception.''  (Peirce, CP&nbsp;5.9, 1905).</p>
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<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>
 
<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>
 
   
 
   
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<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.  (Peirce, CP&nbsp;5.18, 1903).</p>
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<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.  (Peirce, CP&nbsp;5.18, 1903).</p>
 
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==References==
 
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* Peirce, C.S., ''Collected Papers of Charles Sanders Peirce'', vols. 1&ndash;6, [[Charles Hartshorne]] and [[Paul Weiss]] (eds.), vols. 7&ndash;8, [[Arthur W. Burks]] (ed.), Harvard University Press, Cambridge, MA, 1931&ndash;1935, 1958.  (Cited as CP&nbsp;''n''.''m'' for volume&nbsp;''n'', paragraph&nbsp;''m'').
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* Peirce, C.S., ''Collected Papers of Charles Sanders Peirce'', vols. 1&ndash;6, Charles Hartshorne and Paul Weiss (eds.), vols. 7&ndash;8, Arthur W. Burks (ed.), Harvard University Press, Cambridge, MA, 1931&ndash;1935, 1958.  (Cited as CP&nbsp;''n''.''m'' for volume&nbsp;''n'', paragraph&nbsp;''m'').
    
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