Talk:Pragmaticism

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Pragmatic Maxim

Began: Jon Awbrey 19:30, 21 December 2005 (UTC)

I will use this area to develop some content on Peirce's pragmatic maxim, also known as the maxim of pragmatism or the maxim of pragmaticism, until it's whether it deserves a separate article or is better placed under either Charles Peirce, Pragmatism, Pragmaticism, or elsewhere. Now, please don't any Admins delete this while I go look up some sources.

Seven Ways of Looking at a Pragmatic Maxim

Ended: Jon Awbrey 19:30, 21 December 2005 (UTC)

Footnote font size

The reflist 90% font size comes out to an effective 9pt in Internet Explorer but an effective 8pt in Firefox and most other browsers. The main idea was originally for bare citations. The footnotes in "Pragmaticism", however, are meant actually to be read. 9pt is okay for that. To get 9pt, 94% is best across browsers. 105% of the reflist font size has this effect. Or one could put "94%" font size around the older references tag. Either way. The Tetrast (talk) 05:42, 1 January 2010 (UTC).

instrumentalism

Should this be compared with instrumentalism? Tkuvho (talk) 12:46, 18 April 2010 (UTC)

This might be useful: Can you find a reliable source discussing the two ideas?

(IMHO/POV/OR(?)/Read at your own risk!: Instrumentalism seems to have been a degenerate version of pragmaticism, that was skeptical (or hostile) towards a central tenant of pragmaticism: the notation that the truth is "out there" and that it is essential to scientific progress to consider unobserved objects that cannot now be scientifically observed or tested, but that later scientists (or scientists of different species at different times and on different planets) could assess via experimentation.) Kiefer.Wolfowitz (talk) 15:30, 18 April 2010 (UTC)

My comment on this grew long, so I put on my talk page User_talk:The_Tetrast#Pragmaticism_and_instrumentalism. The Tetrast (talk) 19:10, 18 April 2010 (UTC).

However, Peirce criticized the instrumentalism of Ernest Mach (for being back-ward looking in summarizing previous ideas rather than in helping to find new laws): See pages 506-507 in

• Stewart, W. Christopher (1991). "Social and Economic Aspects of Peirce's Conception of Science". Transactions of the Charles S. Peirce Society. Vol. 27, no. 4. Indiana Univerity Press. pp. 501–526. JSTOR 40320349. {{cite news}}: Unknown parameter |authorlinkNOPE= ignored (help); Unknown parameter |chapterNoShow= ignored (help); Unknown parameter |season= ignored (|date= suggested) (help)

However, Peirce applauded Mach's economic analysis of theories (information-compression).Kiefer.Wolfowitz (talk) 22:51, 12 June 2010 (UTC)

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