Re: “On the Paradigm of Experience Appro priate for Semiotic”

* Comments on the Peirce List slow reading of Joseph Ransdell,
   "On the Paradigm of Experience Appropriate for Semiotic",
   http://www.cspeirce.com/menu/library/aboutcsp/ransdell/paradigm.htm

Re: Comments and Questions by Kirsti Määttänen

I was of course thinking of the pragmatic maxim,
which is a regulative principle whose function
is to guide the conduct of thought toward the
object of its aim, advising the addressee on
a way to “attain clearness of apprehension”.

http://knol.google.com/k/pragmatic-maxim

That is why Peirce calls it a maxim of logic,
in other words, placing it among the norms of
the normative science whose objective is truth.

As abstractions from the concrete experience of inquiry,
descriptive and normative aspects of inquiry are united
in the act itself, since the normative rules of inquiry
are precepts for clarifying descriptions and concepts.

P.S. I don't know if you were signed on for the earlier posts
of this slow reading, but I archived most of what I had to say
with regard to descriptive and normative faces of semiotics at
this site:

http://stderr.org/pipermail/inquiry/2011-November/thread.html

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