May 10 2008
How to be clear and distinct
via Popular Science, a vintage 1878 piece by Charles Peirce on ‘How to Make our Ideas Clear’.
The article ends thus…“How to give birth to those vital and procreative ideas which multiply into a thousand forms and diffuse themselves everywhere, advancing civilization and making the dignity of man, is an art not yet reduced to rules, but of the secret of which the history of science affords some hints”.
