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28/01/2021 | Cognitio: Revista de Filosofia vol. 21 n. 2 published | preview |
21/07/2020 | Cognitio: Revista de Filosofia vol. 21 n. 1 published | preview |
03/06/2020 | Cognitio: Revista De Filosofia — Call for Papers | preview |
20/05/2020 | New book series: Peirceana | preview |
18/05/2020 | The 2020–2021 Charles S. Peirce Society Essay Prize | preview |
20/02/2020 | Cognitio: Revista de Filosofia vol. 20 nr. 2 published | preview |
30/12/2019 | New Book on Peirce and Husserl | preview |
30/12/2019 | Applying Peirce 3 | preview |
29/08/2019 | Royce/Peirce Correspondence at the Royce Edition Website | preview |
30/07/2019 | Cognitio: Revista De Filosofia — Call for Papers | preview |
Some Wit, Wisdom & Bewilderment
...every fact of a general or orderly nature calls for an explanation; and logic forbids us to assume in regard to any given fact of that sort that it is of its own nature absolutely inexplicable. This is what Kant calls a regulative principle, that is to say, an intellectual hope. The sole immediate purpose of thinking is to render things intelligible; and to think and yet in that very act to think a thing unintelligible is a self-stultification. It is as though a man furnished with a pistol to defend himself against an enemy were, on finding that enemy very redoubtable, to use his pistol to blow his own brains out to escape being killed by his enemy.
A Guess at the Riddle, 1887-8