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Type: 
Manuscript
Author: 
Peirce, Charles Sanders
Title: 
Reason's Rules
Manuscript Id: 
MS [R] 596
Year: 
1902-03 [c.]
Abstract / Description: 

Robin Catalogue:
A. MS., G-c.1902-3, pp. 1-47, with 11 pp. of variants.
Published, in part, as 5.538-545 (pp. 21-45). Omitted is a dialogue between author and reader, with an aside about the Hegelian dialectic. The various extra-firm beliefs which the reader has about reasoning and belief itself: the reader’s logica utens. Doubt, its derivation and the psychological uneasiness associated with it. Doubt is always more or less conscious, but this is not true of belief. That a man may be quite unaware of his belief is illustrated by the Northern reaction to the South’s attack upon Fort Sumter. Cf. MS. 598.

Language: 
English