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...
Reasoning, Fallacy, Morals, Motive, Pleasure, Necessitarianism, Ideal of Conduct, Poetical Ideal, Resolution, Determination, Conduct, Conscience, Judgment, Quality of Feeling, Satisfaction, Hedonism, Jeremy Bentham, Agency, Logic, Ethics, Self-control, Logica Utens, Logical Synderesis, Truth, Inference, Necessary Reasoning, Logical Feeling, Norm, Utilitarianism, Logical Ideal, Ideal, Logical Criticism, Wilhelm Wundt, Human Sciences, Mathematics, Philosophy, Pragmatism, Doubt, Inquiry, Certainty, German Thought, Historical Method, Isaac Newton, Progress of Science
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Manuscript | Posted 01/09/2014
Peirce, Charles S. (1896). On the Logic of Quantity. MS [R] 13
Robin Catalogue:
A. MS., n.p., [c.1895], pp. 1-13; 7-12, with an alternative p. 8 of another draft.
The principal questions raised are these: Why mathematics always deals with a...
Mathematics, Systems of Quantity, Philosophy, Logic, Metaphysics, Special Observational Sciences, Special Science, Psychical Science, Physical Science, Nomological Science, Classificatory Science, Descriptive Science, Arts, Categories, Quality, Actuality, Law, First, Second, Third, Medium, Otherness, Firstness, Secondness, Thirdness, Idea, Fact, Evolution, Artist, Practical Man, Philosopher, Singular fact, Dual Fact, Relation of Reason, Real Relation, Individual, Identity, Likeness, Plural Fact, Chaldean Metaphysics, Chaos, Partial Determination, Triplicity, Term, Proposition, Mathematics of Logic, Principle of Identity, Falsity, Principle of Contradiction, Principle of Excluded Middle, Function, Equivalence, Copula of Inclusion, Nota Notae, Principle of the Transitiveness of the Copula, Principle of Reasoning from Definition to Definitum, Principle of Hypothetic Syllogism, Principle of the Dilemma
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Dictionary Entry | Posted 26/05/2014
Quote from "A Logical Critique of Essential Articles of Religious Faith"
By Philosophy, I mean that branch of heuretic science (the science of discovery,) which, in the first place, seeks categorical truth, and does not, like mathematics, content itself with...
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Link | Posted 13/05/2014
The Collected Papers, Vol. I: Principles of Philosophy
The first volume of the The Collected Papers of Charles Sanders Peirce, published on line by textlog.de. Originally published in 1931, edited by Charles Hartshorne and Paul Weiss.
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Link | Posted 17/04/2014
Synthese
Synthese is a philosophy journal focusing on contemporary issues in epistemology, philosophy of science, and related fields.
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Dictionary Entry | Posted 04/02/2013
Quote from "Cambridge Lectures on Reasoning and the Logic of Things: Philosophy and the Conduct of Life"
Philosophy seems to consist of two parts, Logic and Metaphysics. I exclude Ethics, for two reasons. In the first place, as the science of the end and aim of life, [ethics] seems to be exclusively...
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Dictionary Entry | Posted 04/02/2013
Quote from "On Quantity, with special reference to Collectional and Mathematical Infinity"
… Philosophy, which makes no special observations, but uses facts commonly known. In order to be exact, it must rest on mathematical principles. It divides...
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Manuscript | Posted 04/01/2013
Peirce, Charles S. (1903). Syllabus: Syllabus of a course of Lectures at the Lowell Institute beginning 1903, Nov. 23. On Some Topics of Logic. MS [R] 478
From the Robin Catalogue:
A. MS., G-1903-2b and G-1903-2d, pp. 1-168 (pp. 106-136 missing); a second title page; pp. 2-23 of a revised section; 69 pp. of variants; and a...
Classification of Sciences, Auguste Comte, Science of Discovery, Science of Review, Practical Science, Mathematics, Philosophy, Idioscopy, Phenomenology, Phenomenon, Normative Science, Metaphysics, Physical Science, Psychical Science, Nomological Physics, Classificatory Physics, Nomological Psychics, Classificatory Psychics, Descriptive Psychics, Speculative Grammar, Critic, Methodeutic, Psychology, Ethnology, History, Ontology, Religious Metaphysics, Physical Metaphysics, Crystallography, Biology, Chemistry, Ethics of Terminology, Firstness, Secondness, Thirdness, Hegel, Consciousness, Degeneracy, Law, Dissociation
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Manuscript | Posted 25/11/2012
Peirce, Charles S. (1897). Multitude and Number. MS [R] 25
From the Robin Catalogue:
A. MS., G-1897-1, pp. 1-82, with rejected or alternative pages running brokenly from p. 7 to p. 71.
Most of manuscript was published (4.170-...
Collection, Universe of Discourse, Experience, Time, Space, Multitude, Discrete Collection, Multiplicity, Mathematics, Philosophy, Enumerable Collection, Finite Collection, Augustus De Morgan, Syllogism of Transposed Quantity, Inenumerable Collection, Fundamental Theorem of Arithmetic, Denumerable Collection, Multiplication, Free Multiplication, Dominated Multiplication, Georg Cantor, Number, Generating Relation, First Abnumeral Multitude, Primipostnumeral Multitude, Achilles and the Tortoise, Fermatian Syllogism, Primipostnumeral Syllogism, Secundopostnumeral Collection, Arithm, Metrics, Graphics, Topics, Geometry, Absolute, Plane, Singularity, Continuity, Chorisis, Cyclosis, Euler's Theorem, Product of a Collection, Vagueness, Generality, Euclid, Non-Euclidean Geometry
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Dictionary Entry | Posted 15/10/2012
Quote from "Minute Logic: Chapter II. Prelogical Notions. Section I. Classification of the Sciences (Logic II)"
Among the theoretical sciences [of discovery], I distinguish three classes, all resting upon observation, but being observational in very different senses.
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Class II is...
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Dictionary Entry | Posted 15/10/2012
Quote from "Harvard Lectures on Pragmatism: Lecture II"
Philosophy, as I understand the word, is a positive theoretical science, and a science in an early stage of development. As such it has no more to do with...
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Dictionary Entry | Posted 15/10/2012
Quote from "A Syllabus of Certain Topics of Logic"
Science of Discovery is either, I. Mathematics; II. Philosophy; or III. Idioscopy.
Mathematics studies what is and what is not logically possible, without making itself responsible for its...
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Dictionary Entry | Posted 15/10/2012
Quote from "The Basis of Pragmaticism"
Two meanings of the term ‘philosophy’ call for our particular notice. The two meanings agree in making philosophical knowledge positive, that is in making it a knowledge of things real,...
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