- Introduction
- Editorial Note
- Preface
- 1. A Definition of Pragmatic and Pragmatism
- 2. The Architectonic Construction of Pragmatism
- 3. Historical Affinities and Genesis
- Book I. Lectures on Pragmatism
- Lecture I. Pragmatism. The Normative Sciences
- 1. Two Statements of the Pragmatic Maxim
- 2. The Meaning of Probability
- 3. The Meaning of “Practical” Consequences
- 4. The Relations of the Normative Sciences
- Lecture II. The Universal Categories
- 1. Presentness
- 2. Struggle
- 3. Laws. Nominalism
- Lecture III. The Categories Continued
- 1. Degenerate Thirdness
- 2. The Seven Systems of Metaphysics
- 3. The Irreducibility of the Categories
- Lecture IV. The Reality of Thirdness
- 1. Scholastic Realism
- 2. Thirdness and Generality
- 3. Normative Judgments
- 4. Perceptual Judgments
- Lecture V. Three Kinds of Goodness
- 1. The Divisions of Philosophy
- 2. Ethical and Esthetical Goodness
- 3. Logical Goodness
- Lecture VI. Three Types of Reasoning
- 1. Perceptual Judgments and Generality
- 2. The Plan and Steps of Reasoning
- 3. Inductive Reasoning
- 4. Instinct and Abduction
- 5. The Meaning of an Argument
- Lecture VII. Pragmatism and Abduction
- 1. The Three Cotary Propositions
- 2. Abduction and Perceptual judgments
- 3. Pragmatism - the Logic of Abduction
- 4. The Two Functions of Pragmatism
- Lecture I. Pragmatism. The Normative Sciences
- Book II. Published Papers
- I. Questions Concerning Certain Faculties Claimed for Man
- 1. Whether by the simple contemplation of a cognition, independently of any previous knowledge and without reasoning from signs, we are enabled rightly to judge whether that cognition has been determined by a previous cognition or whether it refers immediately to its object
- 2. Whether we have an intuitive self-consciousness
- 3. Whether we have an intuitive power of distinguishing between the subjective elements of different kinds of cognitions
- 4. Whether we have any power of introspection, or whether our whole knowledge of the internal world is derived from the observation of external facts
- 5. Whether we can think without signs
- 6. Whether a sign can have any meaning, if by its definition it is the sign of something absolutely incognizable
- 7. Whether there is any cognition not determined by a previous cognition
- II. Some Consequences of Four Incapacities
- 1. The Spirit of Cartesianism
- 2. Mental Action
- 3. Thought-Signs
- 4. Man, a Sign
- III. Grounds of Validity of the Laws of Logic. Further Consequences of Four Incapacities
- 1. Objections to the Syllogism
- 2. The Three Kinds of Sophisms
- 3. The Social Theory of Logic
- IV. The Fixation of Belief
- 1. Science and Logic
- 2. Guiding Principles
- 3. Doubt and Belief
- 4. The End of Inquiry
- 5. Methods of Fixing Belief
- V. How to Make Our Ideas Clear
- 1. Clearness and Distinctness
- 2. The Pragmatic Maxim
- 3. Some Applications of the Pragmatic Maxim
- 4. Reality
- VI. What Pragmatism Is
- 1. The Experimentalists’ View of Assertion
- 2. Philosophical Nomenclature
- 3. Pragmaticism
- 4. Pragmaticism and Hegelian Absolute Idealism
- VII. Issues of Pragmaticism
- 1. Six Characters of Critical Common-Sensism
- 2. Subjective and Objective Modality
- I. Questions Concerning Certain Faculties Claimed for Man
- Book III. Unpublished Papers
- Chapter 1. A Survey of Pragmaticism
- 1. The Kernel of Pragmatism
- 2. The Valency of Concepts
- 3. Logical Interpretants
- 4. Other Views of Pragmatism
- Chapter 2. Pragmaticism and Critical Common-Sensism
- Chapter 3. Consequences of Critical Common-Sensism
- 1. Individualism
- 2. Critical Philosophy and the Philosophy of Common-Sense
- 3. The Generality of the Possible
- 4. Valuation
- Chapter 4. Belief and Judgment
- 1. Practical and Theoretical Beliefs
- 2. Judgment and Assertion
- Chapter 5. Truth
- 1. Truth as Correspondence
- 2. Truth and Satisfaction
- 3. Definitions of Truth
- Chapter 6. Methods for Attaining Truth
- 1. The First Rule of Logic
- 2. On Selecting Hypotheses
- Chapter 1. A Survey of Pragmaticism
- Appendix
- 1. Knowledge
- 2. Representationism
- 3. Ultimate
- 4. Mr. Peterson’s Proposed Discussion
- Index of Proper Names
- Index of Subjects

Collected Papers of Charles Sanders Peirce, Volumes V and VI: Pragmatism and Pragmaticism and Scientific Metaphysics
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Publication Date: 01/01/1935