Dear Keith,
Indirection is like medicine. It should be used judiciously, and in appropriate doses.
In “The American Scholar,” Emerson (1983: 54) had something to say about Frost’s axe handle: “All things have two handles: beware of the wrong one.”
Thank you for mentioning the often-cited and much neglected Charles S. Peirce. Much of the discussion on abduction gets Peirce wrong. This who want to read Peirce for themselves will find the two-volume Indiana edition of The Essential Peirce (1992, 1998) a valuable collection. The Peirce Edition Project maintains an excellent web site with useful resources. One can learn a great deal about Peirce from the web site before buying the books -- URL:
http://peirce.iupui.edu/index.html
One page offers useful guide to reading Peirce for courses or research. It is divided into semiotics, pragmatism, evolutionary philosophy, and the art of reasoning,
http://peirce.iupui.edu/edition.html#essential2
The Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy offers a good overview on Peirce:
https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/peirce/
Please permit a modest correction to your note on the pragmatists. William James, psychologist and philosopher, was a pragmatist. His brother Henry James was a novelist. Henry was not involved with pragmatism. Along with William James, John Dewey, and Charles S. Peirce, the fourth great figure among the founders of pragmatism was George Herbert Mead, philosopher, sociologist, and psychologist.
It is not always possible to go from a straight question to a straight answer. At the same time, one requires a reasonably broad foundation with much direct background knowledge to make indirection useful. Emerson (1983: 53-71) discusses the range of these issues in “The American Scholar.”
Yours,
Ken
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References
Emerson, Ralph Waldo. 1983. Essays and Lectures. New York: The Library of America.
Peirce, Charles S. 1992. The Essential Peirce, Volume 1: Selected Philosophical Writings‚ (1867–1893). Nathan Houser and Christian Kloesel, eds. Bloomington: Indiana University Press.
Peirce, Charles S. 1998. The Essential Peirce, Volume 2: Selected Philosophical Writings, 1893-1913. The Peirce Edition Project, ed. Bloomington: Indiana University Press.
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