The Commens Dictionary

Quote from ‘The Basis of Pragmaticism’

Term: 
Retrospective Science
Quote: 

…since the beginning of the nineteenth century, when Coleridge so defined it in the opening dissertation to the Encyclopaedia Metropolitana, non-scientific people have generally understood “science” to mean systematized knowledge.

[—]

The present writer [—] will call science in the Coleridgean sense retrospective science.

Source: 
Peirce, Charles S. (1906). The Basis of Pragmaticism. MS [R] 283
Date: 
1906
References: 
EP 2:372
Citation: 
‘Retrospective Science’ (pub. 30.04.15-17:06). Quote in M. Bergman & S. Paavola (Eds.), The Commens Dictionary: Peirce's Terms in His Own Words. New Edition. Retrieved from http://www.commens.org/dictionary/entry/quote-basis-pragmaticism-8.
Posted: 
Apr 30, 2015, 17:06 by Mats Bergman
Last revised: 
Jul 23, 2015, 18:38 by Mats Bergman