SOURCE: "The Purpose of the Proof of Pragmatism in Peirce's 1930 Lectures on Pragmatism" in The Monist, Vol. 75, No. 4, October, 1992, pp. 521-37.

In the following excerpt, Turrisi concerns herself with Peirce's pragmatism and his application of pragmatism in his discussions on logic.

A proof of pragmatism is proposed in Peirce's 1903 lecture series on Pragmatism as a Principle and Method of Right Thinking. It is necessary first to define what pragmatism is, a task for which a practitioner of the pragmatic maxim would be fitted, but which, however, must be highly problematic to a potential practitioner who does not yet know its full meaning. In order to clarify its meaning, Peirce uses a method he recommends for such conundrums in his 1891 article, "The Architecture of Theories," that is, "to make a systematic study of the conceptions out of which a philosophical theory may be built, in order to ascertain what...