The pragmatic maxim, with examples

C.S. Peirce (1839-1914) was a logician, scientist, mathematician, and philosopher who was relatively unknown and under-published until well after he died. (But Bertrand Russell later wrote &ldquo;he was one of the most original minds of the later nineteenth century and certainly the greatest American thinker ever.") Peirce (pronounced &ldquo;purse&rdquo;) is most known for inventing philosophical…