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A good place to start is How to Make Our Ideas Clear[1]. [1]https://courses.media.mit.edu/2004spring/mas966/Peirce%201878%20Make%20Ideas%20Clear.pdf https://co

• yesenadam 5y ago
  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 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 https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Author:Charles_Sanders_Peirce
• curo 5y ago
  His introduction hooked me... > A young man would hardly be persuaded to sacrifice the greater part of his thoughts to save the rest; and the muddled head is the least apt to see the necessity of such a sacrifice. Him we can usually only commiserate, as a person with a congenital defect. Time will help him, but intellectual maturity with regard to clearness is apt to come rather late. This seems an unfortunate arrangement of Nature, inasmuch as clearness is of less use to a man settled in life, whose errors have in great measure had their effect, than it would be to one whose path lay before him. ...but 18 pages later, I'm still unclear on how to make my ideas clear.