Il Lume Naturale
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Dictionary Entry | Posted 06/03/2016 Quote from "A Brief Preliminary and Hasty Syllabus of a book to be entitled Calculations of Chances" In the first guesses, there was no guide but what Galileo used to call il lume naturale, the Light of Nature. What is that light of nature but the analogy between... |
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Dictionary Entry | Posted 24/11/2015 Quote from "Studies of Meaning" …it is very important to distinguish any light of nature or of grace from experience. Experience, in the proper sense of the term, is all that one has gone through. It consists... |
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Dictionary Entry | Posted 24/08/2015 Quote from "Grand Logic 1893: Division III. Substantial Study of Logic Chapter VI. The Essence of Reasoning" …there is a mysterious something determining a regularity in Inner Experience, analogous to that Nature which [is] our name for the corresponding mystery of the Outer World, No doubt, the two... |
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Dictionary Entry | Posted 08/07/2015 Quote from "Lowell Lectures on Some Topics of Logic Bearing on Questions Now Vexed. Eighth Lecture, Abduction" …general considerations concerning the universe, strictly philosophical considerations, all but demonstrate that if the universe conforms, with any approach to accuracy, to certain highly... |
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Dictionary Entry | Posted 14/06/2014 Quote from "Cambridge Lectures on Reasoning and the Logic of Things: The First Rule of Logic" … The only end of science, as such, is to learn the lesson that the universe has to teach it. In Induction it simply surrenders itself to the force of facts. But it finds, at once – I am partially... |
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Dictionary Entry | Posted 14/06/2014 Quote from "The Architecture of Theories" A modern physicist on examining Galileo’s works is surprised to find how little experiment had to do with the establishment of the foundations of mechanics. His principal appeal is to common sense... |
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Dictionary Entry | Posted 14/06/2014 Quote from "Lessons of the History of Science" In examining the reasonings of those physicists who gave to modern science the initial propulsion which has insured its healthful life ever since, we are struck with the great, though not... |
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Dictionary Entry | Posted 14/06/2014 Quote from "A Neglected Argument for the Reality of God (O)" Modern science has been builded after the model of Galileo, who founded it, on il lume naturale. That truly inspired prophet had said that, of two hypotheses, the simpler is to... |
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Dictionary Entry | Posted 20/08/2013 Quote from "Cambridge Lectures on Reasoning and the Logic of Things: Philosophy and the Conduct of Life" Reasoning is of three kinds. The first is necessary, but it only professes to give us information concerning the matter of our own hypotheses and distinctly declares that, if we want to know... |
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Manuscript | Posted 04/01/2013 Peirce, Charles S. (1903). Lowell Lectures on Some Topics of Logic Bearing on Questions Now Vexed. Eighth Lecture, Abduction. MS [R] 475 From the Robin Catalogue: Aristotle, Plato, Logic, Galileo, Tycho Brahe, Deduction, Induction, Abduction, George Boole, Copernicus, Probability, Doctrine of Chances, Verification, Pooh-pooh Argument, Descartes, Francis Bacon, Leibniz, Auguste Comte, Karl Pearson, First Impression of Sense, Percept, Ernst Mach, Economy of Research, Sensation, Il Lume Naturale
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Manuscript | Posted 19/12/2012 Peirce, Charles S. (1896 [c.]). Lessons of the History of Science. MS [R] 1288 Robin Catalogue: Three Classes of Men, Science, Scientific Man, Learning, Imagination, Morality, Conservatism, Habit, Law of Habit, Mathematics, Mathematical Reasoning, Diagrammatic Reasoning, Conscience, Speculative Inquiry, Conduct, Sham Reasoning, Authority, Continuity, Desire to Learn, Blocking of Inquiry, Metaphysics, Analytic Method, Historic Method, Ricardo, Retroduction, Abduction, Analogy, Deduction, Induction, John Stuart Mill, Kepler, Copernicus, Greed, Political Economy, Study of Useless Things, Hegelianism, Il Lume Naturale, Generalization, Abstraction, Ockham's Razor, Nominalism, Economy of Research, Exactitude, Certitude, Pythagoras, Uniformity of Nature, Sampling, Paul Carus, Aristotle, Evolution, Darwinian Evolution, Lamarckian Evolution, Cataclysmal Evolution, Pound, Pasteur, Progress of Science, Ego, Soul, Testimony, Historical Documents, Hypnosis, Telepathy, Instinct, Helmholtz, Hypothesis, Ernst Mach
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