Reasoning

Keyword: Reasoning


Manuscript | Posted 12/03/2018
Peirce, Charles S. (1906 [c.]). Retroduction. MS [R] 756

Robin Catalogue:
756. Retroduction (Retr)
A. MS., n.p., late, pp. 1-9, 1-5.
The three kinds or stages of inquiry illustrated.

Dictionary Entry | Posted 28/02/2018
Quote from "Logic. The Theory of Reasoning. Part I. Exact Logic. Introduction. What is Logic"

…it may perhaps be true that reasoning can only be performed by a mind more or less like that of man, although there are machines which will produce the conclusions from certain premises. But...

Manuscript | Posted 27/02/2018
Peirce, Charles S. (1897 [c.]). Logic. The Theory of Reasoning. Part I. Exact Logic. Introduction. What is Logic. MS [R] 735

Robin Catalogue:
A. MS., n.p., n.d., pp. 1-2, 1-5, 1-13, with a title page and a table of contents. Logic is the theory of reasoning and, as such, it is not a branch of psychology (pp...

Dictionary Entry | Posted 14/08/2017
Quote from "Reason's Rules"

We cannot say that reasoning is argument addressed to oneself. For an argument is a communication by which the arguer endeavours to produce a predetermined belief in the mind he addresses. In...

Article in Journal | Posted 26/02/2016
Pietarinen, Ahti-Veikko, Bellucci, Francesco (2014). New Light on Peirce’s Conceptions of Retroduction, Deduction, and Scientific Reasoning
We examine Charles S. Peirce’s mature views on the logic of science, especially as contained in his later and still mostly unpublished writings (1907–1914). We focus on two main issues. The first...
Dictionary Entry | Posted 24/11/2015
Quote from "Preface"

…there seems to be considerable importance in insisting that reasoning is a performance of the physiological organism under the governance of reason, and not exclusively confined to that ens...

Dictionary Entry | Posted 13/10/2015
Quote from "Notes on Portions of Hume's "Treatise on Human Nature""

What I call Reasoning differs from an acritical inference in that it is always accompanied by the belief that it, the special inference, is only an instance of a type, or...

Manuscript | Posted 05/09/2015
Peirce, Charles S. (1906). The Argument for Pragmatism anachazomenally or recessively stated. MS [R] 330

Robin Catalogue:
A. MS., n.p., n.d., 1 folded sheet; plus 5 other folded sheets which, although lacking a title or mark, seem to be connected with the first.
The argument stated...

Manuscript | Posted 22/08/2015
Peirce, Charles S. (1893). How to Reason: A Critick of Arguments. Advertisement [R]. MS [R] 398

A. MS., G-1893-5, pp. 1-11.
Only the last 4 paragraphs (pp. 10-11) published: Collected Papers, Vol. 8, pp. 278-279. Unpublished: a summary of CSP’s work in philosophy and logic which is...

Dictionary Entry | Posted 22/08/2015
Quote from "How to Reason: A Critick of Arguments. Advertisement"

in all reasoning there must be something amounting to a diagram before the mind’s eye, and […] the act of inference consists in observing a relation between parts...

Manuscript | Posted 22/08/2015
Peirce, Charles S. (1893). How to Reason: A Critick of Arguments. Advertisement. MS [R] 397

Robin Catalogue:
A. MS., G-1893-5, pp. 1-12.
Only the 1st paragraph of p. 1 was published: Collected Papers, Vol. 8, p. 278. Unpublished: a general summary of CSP’s work in...

Manuscript | Posted 12/05/2015
Peirce, Charles S. (1905-06 [c.]). Chapter III. The Nature of Logical Inquiry. MS [R] 606

Robin Catalogue:
A. MS., n.p., [1905-06?], pp. 1-29, with 2 pp. of variants.
“Maiotic” method of Socrates. The Athenian Schools and the emergence of Aristotle. Why the logical...

Article in Journal | Posted 30/10/2014
Poggiani, Francesco (2012). What Makes a Reasoning Sound? C. S. Peirce's Normative Foundation of Logic
The article presents a research which examines the conception of philosopher Charles Peirce of reasoning, based on his reflection on the normative sciences and their heirarchical relations. Topics...
Manuscript | Posted 23/09/2014
Peirce, Charles S. (1903). Lectures on Logic, to be delivered at the Lowell Institute. Winter of 1903-1904. Lecture I. MS [R] 454

Robin Catalogue:
A. MS., notebook, n.p., 1903, pp. 1-26.
Existential graphs as a system for expressing any assertion with precision is not intended to facilitate but to analyze...

Manuscript | Posted 23/09/2014
Peirce, Charles S. (1903). Lecture I [R]. MS [R] 453

Robin Catalogue:
A. MS., notebook, n.p., 1903, pp. 1-37.
Science hampered by the false notion that there is no distinction between good and bad reasoning. This notion related to...

Manuscript | Posted 23/09/2014
Peirce, Charles S. (1903). Lecture I [R]. MS [R] 452

Robin Catalogue:
A. MS., notebook, n.p., 1903, pp. 1-14.
The purpose of logic; the division of logic into speculative grammar, critic, and methodeutic. Why “methodeutic” as a...

Dictionary Entry | Posted 22/09/2014
Quote from "Lecture I [R]"

…no sooner have we drawn a conclusion, than we begin to turn upon it with a critic’s eye, and to ask whether it really conformed to our logical ideals. Indeed, unless we do this, in the proper use...

Manuscript | Posted 22/09/2014
Peirce, Charles S. (1903). Lecture I [R]. MS [R] 451

Robin Catalogue:
A. MS., notebook, n.p., 1903, pp. 1-21.
Refutation of the view that there is no distinction between good and bad reasoning or, for that matter, good and bad...

Manuscript | Posted 22/09/2014
Peirce, Charles S. (1903). Lecture I [R]. MS [R] 448

Robin Catalogue:
A. MS,. notebook, G-1903-2a, pp. 1-48.
Published as 1.591-610, with omissions. Unpublished: Present day science suffers from a malady whose source is an...

Manuscript | Posted 01/09/2014
Peirce, Charles S. (1895 [c.]). On Quantity, with special reference to Collectional and Mathematical Infinity. MS [R] 14

Robin Catalogue:
The nature of mathematics, pure and applied. In general, mathematics is concerned with the substance of hypotheses, drawing necessary conclusions from them; pure...

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