Intuition

Keyword: Intuition


Article in Journal | Posted 17/08/2017
Gava, Gabriele (2014). What is Wrong with Intuitions? An Assessment of a Peircean Criticism of Kant
In his 1868 ‘Questions Concerning Certain Faculties Claimed for Man’ and ‘Some Consequences of Four Incapacities’ Peirce famously rejected the possibility of having intuitions. He defined an...
Article in Journal | Posted 13/03/2017
Cumming, Naomi (1999). Musical Signs and Subjectivity: Peircean Reflections
Deals with the reflections of philosopher Charles Peirce on musical signs and subjectivity. Presentation of intuition as an independent faculty; Discussion on problems concerning the application of...
Article in Journal | Posted 13/03/2017
Meyers, Robert G. (1999). Pragmatism and Peirce's Externalist Epistemology
Illustrates how Charles Peirce's rejection of intuition sets his epistemology apart from traditional theories. Methods by which new beliefs are formed; Status of science's fundamental...
Article in Journal | Posted 20/12/2016
Dabay, Thomas (2016). Why Peirce’s Anti-Intuitionism is not Anti-Cartesian: The Diagnosis of a Pragmatist Dogma
A close reading of Descartes’ works, particularly his Regulae ad Directionem Ingenii, calls into question the common interpretation of Peirce’s ‘Questions Concerning Certain Faculties Claimed for Man...
Dictionary Entry | Posted 08/09/2014
Quote from "On the Logic of Quantity"

The sensation of a relation as such is called an intuition.

Manuscript | Posted 08/09/2014
Peirce, Charles S. (1895 [c.]). On the Logic of Quantity. MS [R] 17

Robin Catalogue:
A. MS., n.p., [c.1895], pp. 1-9; 7-10 of another draft.
This manuscript should be compared with MS. 16, to which it bears a special similarity. See also MS. 250...

Manuscript | Posted 08/09/2014
Peirce, Charles S. (1895 [c.]). On the Logic of Quantity, and especially of Infinity. MS [R] 16

Robin Catalogue:
A. MS, n.p., [c.1895], pp. 1, 5-9, 7-18, 18-20.
Several definitions of “mathematics,” including Aristotle’s and CSP’s. Mathematical proof and probable reasoning...

Dictionary Entry | Posted 09/06/2014
Quote from "Questions Concerning Certain Faculties Claimed for Man"

Throughout this paper, the term intuition will be taken as signifying a cognition not determined by a previous cognition of the same object, and therefore so...