The Commens Dictionary
Quote from ‘Harvard Lectures on Pragmatism: Lecture II’
Term:
Quote:
… Philosophy ought to be regarded as having three principal divisions. Its principal utility, although by no means its only utility, is to furnish a Weltanschauung, or conception of the universe, as a basis for the special sciences. Metaphysics is the final branch of philosophical inquiry whose business it is to work this out. But metaphysics must rest upon normative sciences.
Date:
1903
References:
EP 2:146-147
Citation:
‘Metaphysics’ (pub. 05.02.13-19:18). 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-harvard-lectures-pragmatism-lecture-ii-0.