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Dictionary Entry | Posted 23/03/2013
Quote from "Cambridge Lectures on Reasoning and the Logic of Things: Detached Ideas on Vitally Important Topics. Lecture II "

But though there was more unity than in Kant’s system, still, as the subject stood, there was not as much as might be desired. Why should there be three principles of reasoning, and what have they...

Dictionary Entry | Posted 23/03/2013
Quote from "Comments on 'On a New List of Categories'"

As early as 1860, when I knew nothing of any German philosopher except Kant, who had been my revered master for three or four years, I was much struck with a certain indication that Kant’s list of...

Dictionary Entry | Posted 06/02/2013
Quote from "Harvard Lectures on Pragmatism: Lecture II"

A very moderate exercise of this third faculty suffices to show us that the word Category bears substantially the same meaning with all philosophers. For Aristotle...

Manuscript | Posted 08/01/2013
Peirce, Charles S. (1903). CSP's Lowell Lectures of 1903. 2nd Part of 3rd Draught of Lecture III. MS [R] 465

From the Robin Catalogue:
A. MS., notebook, G-1903-2a, October 12, 1903, pp. 68-126; A1-A8.
Published, in part, as 1.521-544 (pp. 68-126, with only the first and last paragraphs...

Dictionary Entry | Posted 07/01/2013
Quote from "Logic of Mathematics: An attempt to develop my categories from within"

We have already seen clearly that the elements of phenomena are of three categories, quality, fact, and thought.

Dictionary Entry | Posted 07/01/2013
Quote from "The List of Categories: A Second Essay"

The list of categories, or as Harris, the author of Hermes, called them, the “philosophical arrangements,” is a table of conceptions drawn from the...

Dictionary Entry | Posted 07/01/2013
Quote from "The Critic of Arguments. II. The Reader is Introduced to Relatives"

Such, at least, is the doctrine I have been teaching for twenty-five years, and which, if deeply pondered, will be found to enwrap an entire philosophy. Kant taught that our fundamental...

Dictionary Entry | Posted 07/01/2013
Quote from "What is Meant by 'Determined'?"

Hegel teaches that the whole series of categories or universal conceptions can be evolved from one – that is, from Seyn – by a certain process, the...

Dictionary Entry | Posted 06/01/2013
Quote from "One, Two, Three: Fundamental Categories of Thought and of Nature"

Thus, the three essential elements of a network of roads are road about a terminus, roadway-connection, and branching; and in like manner, the three fundamental...

Dictionary Entry | Posted 05/01/2013
Quote from "One, Two, Three: Fundamental Categories of Thought and of Nature"

It seems, then, that the true categories of consciousness are: first, feeling, the consciousness which can be included with an instant of time, passive consciousness of quality, without...

Dictionary Entry | Posted 05/01/2013
Quote from "[Notes on the Categories]"

Perhaps it is not right to call these categories conceptions; they are so intangible that they are rather tones or tints upon conceptions. In my first attempt to deal with them, I made use of...

Dictionary Entry | Posted 05/01/2013
Quote from "On a New List of Categories"

§1. This paper is based upon the theory already established, that the function of conceptions is to reduce the manifold of sensuous impressions to unity, and that the validity of a conception...

Dictionary Entry | Posted 05/01/2013
Quote from "On a New List of Categories"

The five conceptions thus obtained, for reasons which will be sufficiently obvious, may be termed categories. That is,
   BEING,
      Quality (Reference to a Ground),...

Article in Journal | Posted 05/01/2013
Peirce, Charles S. (1867). On a New List of Categories
Encyclopedia Article | Posted 26/12/2012
Nubiola, Jaime: "Complexity According to Peirce"

In a world of ever-growing specialization, the issue of complexity attracts a good amount of attention from cross-disciplinary points of view. Charles S. Peirce’s thought may help not only to...

Encyclopedia Article | Posted 19/12/2012
Merrell, Floyd: "Abducting Abduction: Dejá Vu One More Time?"

Abduction, the overlooked dimension of the semiosic process, is with us in our everyday activities, whether we know it or not. Interrelated and intermeshed with practical, concrete consequences of...

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