Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Pragmatic maxim

The following discussion is an archived debate of the proposed deletion of the article below. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page (such as the article's talk page or in a deletion review). No further edits should be made to this page.

The result was keep. Carlosguitar ^{(ready and willing)} 08:43, 10 January 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Pragmatic maxim

This reads as a personal essay on Peirce's pragmatic maxim, sourced entirely from one publication. The ton is all wrong ("seven ways of looking at.."), and it lacks any sources independent of the originator of the term. I flagged this for wider attention a while back, but it does not seem to have resulted in any kind of input. A redirect to Peirce or a merger of the small amount of usable text to a new possible article on the logic of Peirce would be fine, but I don't think this should stand as-is. Guy (Help!) 10:10, 3 January 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Try "First Rule of Reason".
- Susan Haack (1997). "The First Rule of Reason". In Jacqueline Brunning and Paul Forster (ed.). The Rule of Reason: The Philosophy of Charles Sanders Peirce. Toronto: Toronto University Press. pp. 241–261. ISBN 0802078192.
- Sami Pihlström (2004). "Peirce's Place in the Pragmatist Tradition". In Cheryl J. Misak (ed.). The Cambridge Companion to Peirce. Cambridge University Press. p. 48. ISBN 0521579104.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link)
- Vincent G. Potter (1996). "Foreword". Peirce's Philosophical Perspectives. Fordham Univ Press. pp. xxii. ISBN 0823216160.
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Uncle G (talk) 11:46, 3 January 2008 (UTC)[reply]

So does that mean it needs to be retitled, then? Guy (Help!) 17:55, 3 January 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Tricky question:
- C. J. Misak (1995). "Peirce and the Pragmatic Maxim". Verificationism: Its History and Prospects. Routledge. ISBN 0415125979.
- Juan Fontrodona (2002). Pragmatism and Management Inquiry: Insights from the Thought of Charles S Peirce. Quorum/Greenwood. pp. 2, 36. ISBN 1567205151.
- Olshewsky, T.M. (1983). "Peirce's Pragmatic Maxim". Transactions of the Charles S. Peirce Society. 19: 199–210.
- Peter Ochs (1998). Peirce, Pragmatism, and the Logic of Scripture. Cambridge University Press. pp. 36, 80. ISBN 0521570417.
- Cheryl J. Misak (2004). "Charles Sanders Peirce". In Cheryl J. Misak (ed.). The Cambridge Companion to Peirce. Cambridge University Press. pp. 2–3. ISBN 0521579104.
- Sami Pihlström (2004). "Peirce's Place in the Pragmatist Tradition". In Cheryl J. Misak (ed.). The Cambridge Companion to Peirce. Cambridge University Press. pp. 38–39. ISBN 0521579104.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link)
- Donald L. Gelpi (2000). "From Transcendentalism to Pragmatism". Varieties of Transcendental Experience: A Study in Constructive Postmodernism. Liturgical Press. p. 252. ISBN 0814659497.
It looks like the article is conflating the First Rule of Reason and the Pragmatic Maxim. The first quotation in the article is the Rule. The third is the Maxim. Say hello to all the nice people at Wikipedia:WikiProject philosophy, who (I hope.) are just joining us. Uncle G (talk) 18:35, 3 January 2008 (UTC)[reply]
keep and improve or merge and redirect Pontiff Greg Bard (talk) 20:21, 3 January 2008 (UTC) the subject is a worthy one for the wikipedia, we just need to decide how it is portrayed.[reply]
Keep - add to if needed, but the current content is good and should be kept WAS 4.250 (talk) 03:40, 4 January 2008 (UTC)[reply]
Keep - it needs work, but it is worthy of a standalone article. Deletion would be overkill. Cyclone77 (talk) 22:48, 9 January 2008 (UTC)[reply]

The above discussion is preserved as an archive of the debate. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page (such as the article's talk page or in a deletion review). No further edits should be made to this page.