"The elements of every concept enter into logical thought at the gate of perception and make their exit at the gate of purposive action; and whatever cannot show its passports at both those two gates is to be arrested as unauthorized by reason."In the 7th section of this article entitled "Theories, Models, Reasoning, Language, and Truth" John F. Sowa describes indepth Peirce's logic of pragmatism. Sowa uses the graphic above to describe Peirce's three methods of reasoning: induction, abduction, and deduction. The article continues on to analyze Peirce's logic of pragmatism, as well as provide a list of quotes by/about Peirce.
The link didn't work too well for me but i did find the article.
ReplyDeleteSection seven was very thorough about explaining pragmatism.
One of the most memorable quotes included:
""Truth is that concordance of an abstract statement with the ideal limit towards which endless investigation would tend to bring scientific belief, which concordance the abstract statement may possess by virtue of the confession of its inaccuracy and one-sidedness, and this confession is an essential ingredient of truth." -Peirce
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"knowledge is possible and that a great deal of what people believe they know is probably true within the limits of perception and measurement used in everyday life. Yet there is no way of knowing whether any particular statement is absolutely true without qualification. In fact, many statements that have been tested to the most exacting standards available today may only be useful approximations that could turn out to be unreliable or counterproductive tomorrow. "
Its explained Peirce's pragmatism and critics' objections to to very well.
The link had two letters switched around. Here is the correct one:
ReplyDeletehttp://www.jfsowa.com/logic/theories
I found Peirce's article in AIT very dense and this website certainly helped clarify many things. It remained straight forward and with the image helped demonstrate Peirce's "theorizing" process and how he connects his models to everyday use (i.e. Robinson vs. Mandell--forgery case).