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Type: 
Manuscript
Author: 
Peirce, Charles Sanders
Title: 
A Logical Criticism of the Articles of Religious Belief
Manuscript Id: 
MS [R] 856
Year: 
1911
Abstract / Description: 

From the Robin Catalogue:
A. MS., n.p., 2 pp. of one of the alternative sections are dated April 5 and 7, 1911, pp. 1-18, with several alternative sections.
The contempt for religious faith in scientific circles reveals, not open-mindedness, but prejudice. Deduction, induction, and retroduction are the only kinds of reasoning. Deduction as either necessary or probable. Determinism and free will. Over-specialization on the part of the average scientist has made him culturally ignorant - a queer mixture of enlightenment and of what is the equivalent of superstition. Laws of nature. Miracles and ultramiracles. Two of the alternative sections contain a discussion of existential graphs.

Keywords: 
Religion, Deduction, Induction, Retroduction, Reasoning, Critic, Existential Graph, Cut, Dot, Perception, First Impression of Sense, Logic, Free Will, Law, Law of Nature, Scientific Prejudice, Miracle, Probable Deduction, Probability, Graph, Euler's Graphs
Language: 
English