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Still, it will sometimes strike a scientific man that the philosophers have been less intent on finding out what the facts are, th... - MORE Still, it will sometimes strike a scientific man that the philosophers have been less intent on finding out what the facts are, than on inquiring what belief is most in harmony with their system.

Charles Sanders Peirce

philosophical

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The opinion which is fated to be ultimately agreed to by all who investigate, is what we mean by the truth, and the object represe... - MORE The opinion which is fated to be ultimately agreed to by all who investigate, is what we mean by the truth, and the object represented in this opinion is the real. That is the way I would explain reality.

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reality | realism

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Theoretically, I grant you, there is no possibility of error in necessary reasoning. But to speak thus "theoretically," is to use ... - MORE Theoretically, I grant you, there is no possibility of error in necessary reasoning. But to speak thus "theoretically," is to use language in a Pickwickian sense. In practice, and in fact, mathematics is not exempt from that liability to error that affects everything that man does.

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certainty

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Every new concept first comes to the mind in a judgment. Every new concept first comes to the mind in a judgment.

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concept

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Some think to avoid the influence of metaphysical errors, by paying no attention to metaphysics; but experience shows that these m... - MORE Some think to avoid the influence of metaphysical errors, by paying no attention to metaphysics; but experience shows that these men beyond all others are held in an iron vice of metaphysical theory, because by theories that they have never called in question.

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metaphysics

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Three elements go to make up an idea. The first is its intrinsic quality as a feeling. The second is the energy with which it affe... - MORE Three elements go to make up an idea. The first is its intrinsic quality as a feeling. The second is the energy with which it affects other ideas, an energy which is infinite in the here-and-nowness of immediate sensation, finite and relative in the recency of the past. The third element is the tendency of an idea to bring along other ideas with it.

Charles Sanders Peirce

categories | idea

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It is certain that the only hope of retroductive reasoning ever reaching the truth is that there may be some natural tendency towa... - MORE It is certain that the only hope of retroductive reasoning ever reaching the truth is that there may be some natural tendency toward an agreement between the ideas which suggest themselves to the human mind and those which are concerned in the laws of nature.

Charles Sanders Peirce

hypothesis

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It is not too much to say that next after the passion to learn there is no quality so indispensable to the successful prosecution ... - MORE It is not too much to say that next after the passion to learn there is no quality so indispensable to the successful prosecution of science as imagination. Find me a people whose early medicine is not mixed up with magic and incantations, and I will find you a people devoid of all scientific ability.

Charles Sanders Peirce

science

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A sign, or representamen, is something which stands to somebody for something in some respect or capacity. It addresses somebody, ... - MORE A sign, or representamen, is something which stands to somebody for something in some respect or capacity. It addresses somebody, that is, creates in the mind of that person an equivalent sign, or perhaps a more developed sign. That sign which it creates I call the interpretant of the first sign. The sign stands for something, its object. It stands for that object, not in all respects, but in reference to a sort of idea, which I have sometimes called the ground of the representamen.

Charles Sanders Peirce

signs | semiotic

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A quality is something capable of being completely embodied. A law never can be embodied in its character as a law except by deter... - MORE A quality is something capable of being completely embodied. A law never can be embodied in its character as a law except by determining a habit. A quality is how something may or might have been. A law is how an endless future must continue to be.

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quality

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