How to Make Our Ideas Clear

1)- Why is it important to understand the meaning of our ideas?

2)- Why is it important to understand the meaning of our beliefs?

3)- What is the difference between an idea and a belief?

4)- What does Peirce’s pragmatic maxim attempt to discover?

5)- What is the pragmatic maxim?

6)- Distinguish between how the pragmatic maxim applies to ideas as apposed to beliefs?

7) Distinguish between how the pragmatic maxim applies to the content of a belief and holding a belief? (i.e. What is the difference between the meaning of a belief and the meaning of holding a belief?)

8) Can we fool ourselves about what we belief? How?

9) How are actions related to beliefs?

10) How are consequences related to ideas?

11) What is the difference between possible actions and real actions? How do they relate to the pragmatic maxim?

12) Explain Peirce’s example of the idea hard and how the pragmatic maxim illuminates its meaning.

13) Explain Peirce’s example of the diamond that is kept in a box for all eternity.

14) Why are the claims “the diamond is soft” and “the diamond is hard” either meaningless or the same?