The Commens Dictionary

Quote from ‘The Regenerated Logic’

Term: 
Mathematics
Quote: 

Mathematics is the most abstract of all the sciences. For it makes no external observations, nor asserts anything as a real fact. When the mathematician deals with facts, they become for him mere “hypotheses”; for with their truth he refuses to concern himself. The whole science of mathematics is a science of hypotheses; so that nothing could be more completely abstracted from concrete reality.

Source: 
Peirce, Charles S. (1896). The Regenerated Logic
Date: 
1896
References: 
CP 3.428
Citation: 
‘Mathematics’ (pub. 07.04.13-10:45). 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-regenerated-logic-2.
Posted: 
Apr 07, 2013, 10:45 by Sami Paavola
Last revised: 
Jan 07, 2014, 00:58 by Commens Admin