Abstract

Taking my lead from Robert Talisse and Scott Aikin’s distinction between “meaning pragmatism” and “inquiry pragmatism,” and guided throughout by Christopher Hookway’s understanding of Peirce, I revisit some of the best-known locuses of both Peirce’s meaning pragmatism and his inquiry pragmatism, and conclude that the distinction dissolves in Peirce. For Peirce, the very mechanism for elucidating a concept’s meaning, the pragmatic maxim, requires ongoing inquiry. Moreover, in performing an inquiry, we elucidate meaning.

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