Reality

Keyword: Reality


Article in Journal | Posted 13/03/2017
Apel, Karl-Otto (2001). Pragmatism as Sense-Critical Realism Based on a Regulative Idea of Truth: In Defense of a Peircean Theory of Reality and Truth
Examines a pragmatist theory of reality and truth according to philosopher Charles Peirce. Analysis of idealizations in the theory of Peirce; Significance of the revocation of the consensus theory of...
Reality, Truth, Jürgen Habermas, Consensus Theory of Truth, Pragmatism
Manuscript | Posted 26/03/2016
Peirce, Charles S. (1905). Valency. MS [R] 1041

Robin Catalogue:
A. MS., n.p., [1905], pp. 1-26, with 6 pp. of variants.
CSP sets out to discuss “the mode of composition of ideas,” developing an analogy between simple ideas...

Valency, Chemistry, Indecomposable Idea, Jöns Jacob Berzelius, Edward Frankland, Continuum, Conditional Being, Real, Reality, Pragmatism, Elasticity
Article in Journal | Posted 13/02/2016
Farber, Ilya (2005). Peirce on Reality, Truth, and the Convergence of Inquiry in the Limit
The article analyzes how American philosopher Charles Peirce understands the concept of reality. He identifies the real as that which is independent of what any individual thinks about it and as a...
Reality, Realism, Inquiry, Convergence
Manuscript | Posted 20/07/2015
Peirce, Charles S. (1893 [c.]). Nominalism, Realism, and the Logic of Modern Science [R]. MS [R] 860

Robin Catalogue:
A. MS., G-c.1896-1, 17 pp.
From this manuscript, 6.492-493 were published. Unpublished: scientific method and the solution of philosophical problems....

Science, Scientific Method, Nominalism, Real, Reality, Law, Isaac Newton, Bernhard Riemann, Léon Foucault, Carl Friedrich Gauss, Positive Knowledge, Mathematical Knowledge, Unknowable, Experience, God
Manuscript | Posted 19/01/2015
Peirce, Charles S. (1902 [c.]). Reason's Rules. MS [R] 599

Robin Catalogue:
A. MS., n.p., [c.1902], pp. 4-45, 31-42, and 8 pp. of fragments.
The nature of a sign. Propositions as the significations of signs which represent that some...

Truth, Opinion, Falsity, Assertion, Judgment, Proposition, Sentence, Command, Meaning, Subject, Reality, Mathematics, Absurdity, Emptiness, Insolubilia, Logic, Idealism, Berkeley, Value, Sign, Object, Thomas Aquinas, Port Royal Grammar, Consciousness, Eduard von Hartmann, Unconscious, Endless Series of Signs, Achilles and the Tortoise, Understanding, Reasonableness, Interpretant, Icon, Index, Symbol, Indeterminacy, Logical Possibility, Possibility, Self-contradiction, Innocent Self-contradiction, Vicious Self-contradiction
Manuscript | Posted 21/09/2014
Peirce, Charles S. (1912 [c.]). Secundal Computation. MS [R] 53

Robin Catalogue:
A. MS., n.p., [c.1912?], pp. 1-6, with 2 other attempts to write p. 2.
The notion of “elegance” in mathematics. The secundal system. Modes of reality.

Counting, Mathematics, Mathematical Elegance, Reality, Would-be
Manuscript | Posted 19/09/2014
Peirce, Charles S. (1901-02 [c.]). An Illustration of Dynamics. MS [R] 49

Robin Catalogue:
A. MS., n.p., [c.1901-02?], pp. 1-20, with 3 pp. of variants.
Setting out from two problems of dynamics both of which require for their solution the method of...

Infinitesimal, Reality, Existence, Unreal, Proper Name, Common Name, Fancy, Percept, Multitude, Collection, Definiteness, Latitude of Choice, Individuality, Counting, Perceptual Observation, Ens Rationis, Set, Couple, Dyadic Relation, General, Non-existence, Self-correspondence, Correlative Inclusion, Multiplicity
Manuscript | Posted 09/09/2014
Peirce, Charles S. (1903 [c.]). The Theory of Multitude. MS [R] 24

Robin Catalogue:
A. MS., n.p., [c.1903], pp. 1-3; 3-4 of another draft.
“Multitude” defined in terms of collection, followed by a pragmatistic definition of “collection.”

Multitude, Collection, Hope, Reality, Possibility, Individuality, Ordinal Number
Monograph | Posted 27/06/2013
Hookway, Christopher (2012). The Pragmatic Maxim: Essays on Peirce and Pragmatism

Christopher Hookway presents a series of essays on the philosophy of Charles Sanders Peirce (1839-1913), the 'founder of pragmatism' and one of the most important and original American...

Pragmatism, Maxim of Pragmatism, Fallibilism, Psychologism, Inquiry, Truth, Reality, Abduction
Encyclopedia Article | Posted 06/05/2013
Burke, Tom: "The Pragmatic Maxim"

What is the pragmatic maxim? The aim here is to present in an elementary and intuitive way what the pragmatic maxim was originally intended to convey, at least in Peirce’s earliest statements, and...

Pragmatic Maxim, Meaning, Reality, Truth, Positivism, Verificationism, Utilitarianism, Rationality