Peirce, Pragmatism, and the Logic of Scripture
Cover -- Title -- Copyright -- Dedication -- Contents -- List of abbreviations -- PART I Peirce's pragmatic writing -- 1 Introduction: reading Peirce's pragmatism -- The pragmatic method of reading: a rabbinic analogue -- What texts i am examining, to what degree of precision -- Some of the scholarly contexts of this study -- Developmental studies of peirce's work -- Studies of the one peirce and the many peirces -- On peirce as pragmatist and semiotician -- On peirce as theosemiotician and hermeneut -- 2 Pragmatic methods of reading and interpretation -- Pragmatic reading in the cartesian-kantian tradition of epistemology -- A non-general method -- A method developed by and for members of the Cartesian-kantian practice -- The method, formally stated -- Stage 1 in the method of reading -- Stage 2 in the method of reading -- Stage 3 in the method of reading -- Stage 4 ofthe method of reading -- Reading as interpreting -- The first stage of interpretation -- The third stage oflnterpretation -- Methods of repair -- Textual implicature: pragmatic reading in the tradition of pragmatics -- 3 Problems in Peirce's early critique of Cartesianism -- The 1868 thesis-token -- Problems in peirce's 1868 theses -- A pragmatic reading of peirce's 1868 theses -- 1 (a) The pragmatic realist's understanding of method -- 1 (b) The conceptualises understanding of method -- Leading tendencies -- The importance of kant: an excursus -- Nominalism andconceptualism -- Accounting for problems in peirce's thesis-tokens -- Equivocal methods of argumentation -- Fallacies of composition -- The contradictory theses on perception -- 4 Problems in Peirce's early theory of pragmatism -- Illustrations of the logic of science": the plain sense of the texts -- Problems in peirce" Illustrations -- A pragmatic reading of peirce's"Illustrations