Quote from "The Regenerated Logic"

Commens

Digital Companion to C. S. Peirce

‘Mathematics’ (pub. 07.04.13-10:45). 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-2.

Term:

Mathematics

Quote:

Mathematics is the most abstract of all the sciences. For it makes no external observations, nor asserts anything as a real fact. When the mathematician deals with facts, they become for him mere “hypotheses”; for with their truth he refuses to concern himself. The whole science of mathematics is a science of hypotheses; so that nothing could be more completely abstracted from concrete reality.

Source:

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

References:

CP 3.428

Date of Quote:

1896

URL:

http://www.commens.org/dictionary/entry/quote-regenerated-logic-2