Assertion
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News | Posted 07/05/2019 Workshop: Peirce on Assertion In 1902 Peirce wrote: "one and the same proposition may be affirmed, denied, judged, doubted, inwardly inquired into, put as a question, wished, asked for, effectively commanded, taught, or merely... |
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News | Posted 07/05/2019 Workshop: Assertion and Proof (WAP 2019) The notion of assertion plays a key inferential role and has a long tradition in logic. It is a key ingredient in most logical systems, either implicitly or explicitly. The idea of... |
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Article in Journal | Posted 16/09/2017 Thibaud, Pierre (1997). Between Saying and Doing: Peirce's Propositional Space Discusses philosopher Charles Peirce's theory of proposition. Relation between proposition and assertion; Details on the pragmatic analysis of assertion and proposition; Types of indetermination...
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Dictionary Entry | Posted 24/08/2017 Quote from "On the System of Existential Graphs Considered as an Instrument for the Investigation of Logic" …assertion does not add a new element of thought. For an assertion is not a thought but a deed. If one goes before a notary and takes one’s affidavit to a statement, that is nothing but highly... |
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Dictionary Entry | Posted 22/08/2017 Quote from "The Rationale of Reasoning" A Proposition is nearly the same as an “Assertion.” The distinction which I use the two words to mark is that an Assertion includes no more than it is the intention of the... |
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Manuscript | Posted 22/08/2017 Peirce, Charles S. (1910.11). The Rationale of Reasoning. MS [R] 664 Robin Catalogue: |
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Article in Journal | Posted 27/06/2017 Serson, Breno (1997). On Peirce's Pure Grammar as a General Theory of Cognition: From the Thought-sign of 1868 to the Semeiotic Theory of Assertion |
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Article in Journal | Posted 02/05/2017 Boyd, Kenneth, Heney, Diana (2017). Rascals, triflers, and pragmatists: developing a Peircean account of assertion While the topic of assertion has recently received a fresh wave of interest from Peirce scholars, to this point no systematic account of Peirce’s view of assertion has been attempted. We think that...
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Article in Journal | Posted 13/03/2017 Midtgarden, Torjus (2001). Peirce's Speculative Grammar from 1895-1896: Its Exegetical Background and Significance Discusses the exegetical background and significance of Charles Sanders Peirce's speculative grammar from 1895-1896. Conceptual elements contained in the reformulated theory of truth; Role of...
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Article in Journal | Posted 13/03/2017 Pape, Helmut (2002). Pragmatism and the Normativity of Assertion Asserts that the idealistic sequentialism of C.S. Peirce is internally related to his view that the semantics of assertions and inferences has an irreducible normative and social side. Form taken by...
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Article in Journal | Posted 10/07/2016 Boyd, Kenneth (2016). Peirce on Assertion, Speech Acts, and Taking Responsibility C.S. Peirce held what is nowadays called a 'commitment view' of assertion. According to this type of view, assertion is a kind of act that is determined by its 'normative effects...
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Article in Journal | Posted 07/05/2016 Howat, Andrew W. (2015). Hookway's Peirce on Assertion & Truth Charles Sanders Peirce famously claimed that 'The opinion which is fated to be ultimately agreed to by all who investigate is what we mean by the truth' (W3: 273). Christopher Hookway has...
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Dictionary Entry | Posted 07/03/2016 Quote from "The Basis of Pragmaticism" To assert a proposition means to accept responsibility for it, so that if it turns out ill, or as Mr. Schiller says (by implication) unsatisfactory, in a certain way which we... |
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Dictionary Entry | Posted 07/03/2016 Quote from "The Fourth Curiosity" …a sign which belongs to a conventional system of possible signs, and which is intended and calculated to produce a belief in the mind to which it is addressed is an ... |
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Dictionary Entry | Posted 04/03/2016 Quote from "Unidentified Fragments" What is the nature of assertion? We have no magnifying-glass that can enlarge its features, and render them more discernible; but in default of such an instrument we can select for examination a... |
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Dictionary Entry | Posted 24/11/2015 Quote from "Short Logic" A proposition asserts something. That assertion is performed by the symbol which stands for the act of consciousness. That which accounts for assertion... |
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Dictionary Entry | Posted 05/09/2015 Quote from "Analysis of the Trustworthiness of the Different Kinds of Reasonings" …throughout this essay the word “assertion” will be used to mean a certain kind of communication, and so to denote a performance requiring the coöperation of two... |
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Dictionary Entry | Posted 30/08/2015 Quote from "New Elements (Kaina stoiceia)" The man is a symbol. Different men, so far as they can have any ideas in common, are the same symbol. Judgment is the determination of the man-symbol to have whatever... |
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Dictionary Entry | Posted 19/01/2015 Quote from "Harvard Lectures on Pragmatism: Lecture I" …it is a fairly easy problem to analyze the nature of assertion. To find an easily dissected example, we shall naturally take a case where the assertive element is magnified, – a very... |
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Dictionary Entry | Posted 19/01/2015 Quote from "Reason's Rules" An assertion is an act by which a person makes himself responsible for the truth of a proposition. |