Metaphysics

Keyword: Metaphysics


Dictionary Entry | Posted 07/04/2013
Quote from "A fragment on metaphysics [CP]"

Metaphysics is the proper designation for the third, and completing department of coenoscopy, which in places welds itself into idioscopy, or special science.

Dictionary Entry | Posted 05/02/2013
Quote from "A Sketch of Logical Critics"

… Under Philosophy, we shall find ourselves again forced,-unless we wrench matters,-to make a trichotomy; recognizing first, Phenomenology; second, the Critical, Normative Sciences, and third,...

Dictionary Entry | Posted 05/02/2013
Quote from "The Basis of Pragmaticism"

Metaphysics is the proper designation for the third and completing department of cenoscopy, which in places welds itself into idioscopy, or special science. Its...

Dictionary Entry | Posted 05/02/2013
Quote from "Syllabus: Syllabus of a course of Lectures at the Lowell Institute beginning 1903, Nov. 23. On Some Topics of Logic"

Philosophy is divided into (a) Phenomenology; (b) Normative Science; (c) Metaphysics.

Phenomenology ascertains and studies the kinds of elements universally...

Dictionary Entry | Posted 05/02/2013
Quote from "Harvard Lectures on Pragmatism: Lecture II"

… 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...

Dictionary Entry | Posted 04/02/2013
Quote from "Harvard Lectures on Pragmatism: Lecture V"

Philosophy has three grand divisions. The first is Phenomenology, which simply contemplates the Universal Phenomenon and discerns its ubiquitous elements, Firstness...

Dictionary Entry | Posted 04/02/2013
Quote from "Minute Logic: Chapter II. Prelogical Notions. Section I. Classification of the Sciences (Logic II)"

metaphysics, whose attitude toward the universe is nearly that of the special sciences (anciently, physics was its designation), from which it is mainly distinguished, by...

Dictionary Entry | Posted 04/02/2013
Quote from "Cambridge Lectures on Reasoning and the Logic of Things: Philosophy and the Conduct of Life"

Philosophy seems to consist of two parts, Logic and Metaphysics. [—]

Metaphysics recognizes an inner and an outer world, a world of...

Dictionary Entry | Posted 04/02/2013
Quote from "On Quantity, with special reference to Collectional and Mathematical Infinity"

Philosophy, which makes no special observations, but uses facts commonly known. In order to be exact, it must rest on mathematical principles. It divides into Logic, which...

Manuscript | Posted 04/02/2013
Peirce, Charles S. (1895 [c.]). On Quantity, with special reference to Collectional and Mathematical Infinity. MS [R] 15

From the Robin Catalogue:
A. MS., n.p., [c.1895], pp. 1-29, incomplete.
Same questions raised as in MS. 14. “Mathematics” defined, with extended comments on the divisions of the...

Manuscript | Posted 04/01/2013
Peirce, Charles S. (1903). Syllabus: Syllabus of a course of Lectures at the Lowell Institute beginning 1903, Nov. 23. On Some Topics of Logic. MS [R] 478

From the Robin Catalogue:
A. MS., G-1903-2b and G-1903-2d, pp. 1-168 (pp. 106-136 missing); a second title page; pp. 2-23 of a revised section; 69 pp. of variants; and a...

Encyclopedia Article | Posted 22/12/2012
Vernis, Ramon Vilà: "Peircean Categories: an Old Name for a New Way of Thinking"

The evolution of Peirce’s thought seems to go through a series of dramatic turns and breaks, among them the appearance of phenomenology by the turn of the century, along with the emergence of...

Encyclopedia Article | Posted 22/12/2012
Rosenthal, Sandra: "Categories, Pragmatism, and Experimental Method"

Peirce’s method of categorial development reveals the experimental nature of phenomenology, of metaphysics, and of the relation between their respective claims. The phenomenological categories of...

Manuscript | Posted 19/12/2012
Peirce, Charles S. (1896 [c.]). Lessons of the History of Science. MS [R] 1288

Robin Catalogue:
A. MS., G-c. 1896-3 [sup(2)G-c.1896-3], pp. 1-47.
Published, in part, as 1.43-125. Unpublished: on blocking the path of inquiry; Ockham’s maxim and...

Dictionary Entry | Posted 15/10/2012
Quote from "Unidentified Fragments"

Metaphysics is the proper designation for the third, and completing department of coenoscopy, which in places welds itself into idioscopy, or special science.

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