Quote from "The Regenerated Logic"

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Digital Companion to C. S. Peirce

‘Exact Logic’ (pub. 05.03.18-11:46). 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-regenerated-logic-10.

Term:

Exact Logic

Quote:

Logic may be defined as the science of the laws of the stable establishment of beliefs. Then, exact logic will be that doctrine of the conditions of establishment of stable belief which rests upon perfectly undoubted observations and upon mathematical, that is, upon diagrammatical, or, iconic, thought.

Source:

Peirce, C. S. (1896). The Regenerated Logic. The Monist, 7(1), 19-40.

References:

CP 3.429

Date of Quote:

1896

URL:

http://www.commens.org/dictionary/entry/quote-regenerated-logic-10