How to Make Our Ideas Clear

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1. User23Oct 2021
   A good place to start is How to Make Our Ideas Clear[1].

   [1]https://courses.media.mit.edu/2004spring/mas966/Peirce%20187...

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2. jfarmerJun 2021
   You might like American Pragmatism: CS Peirce, FP Ramsey, CI Lewis, William James, John Dewey, etc.

   Peirce's "How to Make Our Ideas Clear": https://courses.media.mit.edu/2004spring/mas966/Peirce%20187...

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3. User23Feb 2021
   You clearly have a pragmatic mind so perhaps you’ll find this of interest. The problem of clarity has been recognized for a while. CS Peirce took a pretty good stab at it with How to Make Our Ideas Clear[1] and even that is a little dense. Partly due to 19th century prose though.

   [1] https://wps.prenhall.com/wps/media/objects/5396/5525631/docu...

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4. User23Mar 2019
   On a New List of Categories[1] is a good entry point. I like How to Make Our Ideas Clear[2] as well, and it may be more germane to this topic. He was a prolific writer, and I've found everything of his I've read thought provoking.

   Edit: Some Consequences of Four Incapacities[3] is another that deals with how we understand things.

   [1]http://www.peirce.org/writings/p32.html

   [2]http://www.peirce.org/writings/p119.html

   [3]http://www.peirce.org/writings/p27.html

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5. avdempseyJul 2010
   Check out Charles S. Peirce, American father of pragmaticism (not pragmatism). Two essays, 'The Fixation of Belief' and 'How to Make Our Ideas Clear' are particularly inspiring. Google 'peirce how to make our ideas clear', it's number one.
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6. yesenadamOct 2021
   Might be better to first read the previous year's Fixation of Belief, to which Peirce refers repeatedly in How To Make Our Ideas Clear. In it he defines and illustrates the method of authority, the method of tenacity, the a priori method etc.

   https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/The_Fixation_of_Belief

   It begins amusingly

   > Few persons care to study logic, because everybody conceives himself to be proficient enough in the art of reasoning already. But I observe that this satisfaction is limited to one's own ratiocination, and does not extend to that of other men.

   They were originally part 1 and 2 of the 6-part Illustrations of the Logic of Science.

   https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Author:Charles_Sanders_Peirce

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