largely cleared up
| by the application of the following maxim for attaining clearness of
| apprehension:  &quot;Consider what effects, that might conceivably have
| practical bearings, we conceive the object of our conception to have.
| Then, our conception of these effects is the whole of our conception
| of the object.&quot;
|
|(Peirce, CP 5.2, 1878/1902).    (018)

The second excerpt presents another version of the &quot;pragmatic maxim&quot;,
a recommendation about a way of clarifying meaning that can 