The paper seeks to explain in what sense pragmatism was for Peirce a doctrine of logic. It is argued that logic because its maxim, the pragmatic maxim methodeutic abduction, i.e., concerns method selecting hypotheses experimental testing. also connects this idea Peirce’s 1913 thesis according which contributes security but not uberty reasoning. connection consists by excluding cannot be tested,...

In his Locke Lectures Brandom proposes to extend what he calls the project of analysis to encompass various relationships between meaning and use. As the traditional project of analysis sought to clarify various logical relations between vocabularies—Russell’s theory of descriptions, for instance, showing how sentences containing definite descriptions can be rewritten, ostensibly without any ch...

1. The Problem I begin with a gloomy observation on monastic education by Phra Prayud Payutto (1939) of Thailan whom Tambiah calls "a brilliant scholar-monk" [1]. Payutto said in 1984: "The present state of m education is similar to a sky which has some spots of sunshine, but is in fact full of cloud. The sky is n clear. When monks themselves see the dull and overcast sky they may feel disheart...