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 ill

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