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Charles S. Peirce

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Philosopher (deceased).

Charles Sanders Peirce was an American scientist, mathematician, logician, and philosopher who is sometimes known as "the father of pragmatism". According to philosopher Paul Weiss, Peirce was "the most original and versatile of America's philosophers and America's greatest logician". Bertrand Russell wrote "he was one of the most original minds of the later nineteenth century and certainly the greatest American thinker ever". .. more

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Charles S. Peirce @charlespeirce.bsky.social · 5h

I should add: adhere to the one ordinance of Play, the law of liberty.

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Charles S. Peirce @charlespeirce.bsky.social · 14h

Do not block the way of inquiry.

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Rorty QOTD @rortyquotes.bsky.social · 16h

How would things look if we drop the demand for a theory which unifies the public and private, and are content to treat the demands of self-creation and of human solidarity as equally valid, yet forever incommensurable?
'Contingency, Irony, and Solidarity' p.xv
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This book tries to show how things look if we drop the demand for a theory which unifies the public and private, and are content to treat the demands of self-creation and of human solidarity as equally valid, yet forever incommensurable.

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Charles S. Peirce @charlespeirce.bsky.social · 1d

it is refreshing enough more than to repay the expenditure.
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Charles S. Peirce @charlespeirce.bsky.social · 1d

There is a certain agreeable occupation of mind which, from its having no distinctive name, I infer is not as commonly practised as it deserves to be; for indulged in moderately—say through some five to six per cent of one's waking time, perhaps during a stroll—
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Charles S. Peirce @charlespeirce.bsky.social · 1d

An "Argument" is any process of thought reasonably tending to produce a definite belief. An "Argumentation" is an Argument proceeding upon definitely formulated premisses.

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Charles S. Peirce @charlespeirce.bsky.social · 2d

Take for illustration the sensation undergone by a child that puts its forefinger into a flame with the acquisition of a habit of keeping all its members out of all flames.

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Charles S. Peirce @charlespeirce.bsky.social · 2d

I use the word "self-controlled" for "controlled by the thinker's self," and not for "uncontrolled" except in its own spontaneous, i.e. automatic, self-development, as Professor J. M. Baldwin uses the word.

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Charles S. Peirce @charlespeirce.bsky.social · 2d

An "Experience" is a brutally produced conscious effect that contributes to a habit, self-controlled, yet so satisfying, on deliberation, as to be destructible by no positive exercise of internal vigour.

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Charles S. Peirce @charlespeirce.bsky.social · 2d

The "Actual" is that which is met with in the past, present, or future.

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Charles S. Peirce @charlespeirce.bsky.social · 2d

make up a set of circumstances sufficient to distinguish it from all other events; and these belong to it, i.e. would be true if predicated of it, whether A, B, or C Actually ascertains them or not.
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Charles S. Peirce @charlespeirce.bsky.social · 2d

Thus, the substance of a dream is not Real, since it was such as it was, merely in that a dreamer so dreamed it; but the fact of the dream is Real, if it was dreamed; since if so, its date, the name of the dreamer, etc.,
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Charles S. Peirce @charlespeirce.bsky.social · 2d

"Real" is a word invented in the thirteenth century to signify having Properties, i.e. characters sufficing to identify their subject, and possessing these whether they be anywise attributed to it by any single man or group of men, or not.

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Rorty QOTD @rortyquotes.bsky.social · 2d

Edifying philosophy falls into self-deception whenever it tries to do more than send the conversation off in new directions.
'Philosophy and the Mirror of Nature' p.378
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That is why "existentialism"—and, more generally, edifying philosophy—can be only reactive, why it falls into self-deception whenever it tries to do more than send the conversation off in new directions. Such new directions may, perhaps, engender new normal discourses, new sciences, new philosophical research programs, and thus new objective truths. But they are not the point of edifying philosophy, only accidental byproducts. The point is always the same—to perform the social function which Dewey called "breaking the crust of convention," preventing man from deluding himself with the notion that he knows himself, or anything else, except under optional descriptions.

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Charles S. Peirce @charlespeirce.bsky.social · 2d

This argument, however, only covers a part of the question. It does not go to show that there is no cognition undetermined except by another like it.

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Charles S. Peirce @charlespeirce.bsky.social · 3d

The apprehension of space and time results, according to him, from a mental process, the "Synthesis der Apprehension in der Anschauting." (See Critik d. reinen Vernunft. Ed. 1781, pp. 98 et seq.) My theory is merely an account of this synthesis.
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Charles S. Peirce @charlespeirce.bsky.social · 3d

Kant, it is true, makes space and time intuitions, or rather forms of intuition, but it is not essential to his theory that intuition should mean more than "individual representation."
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Charles S. Peirce @charlespeirce.bsky.social · 3d

The above theory of space and time does not conflict with that of Kant so much as it appears to do. They are in fact the solutions of different questions.

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Charles S. Peirce @charlespeirce.bsky.social · 3d

Still, it would be impossible to find a passage where the authority of Aristotle is directly denied upon any logical question.

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Charles S. Peirce @charlespeirce.bsky.social · 3d

Recognized authorities were certainly sometimes disputed in the twelfth century; the mutual contradictions ensured that, and the authority of philosophers was regarded as inferior to that of the theologians.

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Charles S. Peirce @charlespeirce.bsky.social · 4d

This use of "speculation" did not take root, because that word already had another in exact and widely different meaning.

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Charles S. Peirce @charlespeirce.bsky.social · 4d

tunc antem facie ad faciem, he called the former speculation in the latter intuition.
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Charles S. Peirce @charlespeirce.bsky.social · 4d

The word intuitus first occurs as a technical term in St. Anselm's Monologium. he wished to distinguish between our knowledge of God and our knowledge of finite things (and in, the next world, of God, also); And thinking of the saying of St Paul, Videmus nunc per speculum in oenigmate:
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Charles S. Peirce @charlespeirce.bsky.social · 4d

It’s from near the end of this:

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Questions concerning certain Faculties claimed for Man - Wikisource, the free online library

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Charles S. Peirce @charlespeirce.bsky.social · 4d

In a subsequent paper, I shall trace the consequences, of these principles, in reference to the questions of reality, of individuality, and of the validity of the laws of logic.

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Charles S. Peirce @charlespeirce.bsky.social · 4d

No cognition not determined by a previous cognition, then, can be known. It does not exist, then, first, because it is absolutely incognizable, and second, because a cognition only exists so far as it is known

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Charles S. Peirce @charlespeirce.bsky.social · 4d

Besides, all the cognitive faculties we know of are relative, and consequently their products are relations. But the cognition of a relation is determined by previous cognitions.

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Center for Dewey Studies @deweycenter.siu.edu · 4d

“It is hardly worth while to oppose science and art sharply to one another, when the deficiencies and troubles of life are so evidently due to separation between art and blind routine and blind impulse. Routine exemplifies the uniformities and recurrences of...
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John Dewey standing at a desk with several books resting atop it. Behind the desk is a large painting of John Dewey seated in a comfortable chair with a book.

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Rorty QOTD @rortyquotes.bsky.social · 4d

A talent for speaking differently, rather than for arguing well, is the chief instrument of cultural change.
'Contingency, Irony, and Solidarity' p.7
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I can sum up by redescribing what, in my view, the revolutionaries and poets of two centuries ago were getting at. What was glimpsed at the end of the eighteenth century was that anything could be made to look good or bad, important or unimportant, useful or useless, by being redescribed. What Hegel describes as the process of spirit gradually becoming self-conscious of its intrinsic nature is better described as the process of European linguistic practices changing at a faster and faster rate. The phenomenon Hegel describes is that of more people offering more radical redescriptions of more things than ever before, of young people going through half a dozen spiritual gestalt-switches before reaching adulthood. What the Romantics expressed as the claim that imagination, rather than reason, is the central human faculty was the realization that a talent for speaking differently, rather than for arguing well, is the chief instrument of cultural change.

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Charles S. Peirce @charlespeirce.bsky.social · 5d

But to adduce the cognition by which a given cognition has been determined is to explain the determinations of that cognition. And it is the only way of explaining them.

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