Talk:Pragmatism in the Century Dictionary Supplement

Attribution
The Peirce Edition Project's branch at Université du Québec à Montréal is producing Volume 7 of Writings of Charles S. Peirce: A Chronological Edition on Peirce's Century Dictionary contributions (Volumes 1-6 & 8 have been published). "Pragmatism" is one of the words for which they have documentation. See under P (Eprint) at their lists of words. The documentation which they collect is such as to indicate Peirce's involvement. See "Peirce Edition Project (UQÀM) - in short". In Charles Sanders Peirce: A Life, 2nd edition, 1998, revised and enlarged, Bloomington and Indianapolis: Indiana University Press, author Joseph Brent says on page 139 that Benjamin Eli Smith as managing editor in 1883 recruited Peirce as a contributor and editor, and gave him "primary responsibility for terms in logic, philosophy, mathematics, astronomy, and weights and measures, and all words relating to universities...". On page 88 Brent attributes the 1909 Supplement's definition of pragmatism to Peirce (and, as Brent mentions, others' definitions are quoted in the definition). Brent does not source his attribution of the definition to Peirce. At least until Writings Volume 7 is published, there remains the possibility that Peirce edited or approved the definition but did not write it entirely by himself.