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‘Retrospective Science’ (pub. 30.04.15-17:06). Quote in M. Bergman & S. Paavola (Eds.), The Commens Dictionary: Peirce's Terms in His Own Words. New Edition. Retrieved from http://www.commens.org/dictionary/entry/quote-basis-pragmaticism-8.
Term: 
Retrospective Science
Quote: 

…since the beginning of the nineteenth century, when Coleridge so defined it in the opening dissertation to the Encyclopaedia Metropolitana, non-scientific people have generally understood “science” to mean systematized knowledge.

[—]

The present writer [—] will call science in the Coleridgean sense retrospective science.

Source: 
Peirce, C. S. (1906). The Basis of Pragmaticism. MS [R] 283.
References: 
EP 2:372
Date of Quote: 
1906
URL: 

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