Purpose

Keyword: Purpose


Dictionary Entry | Posted 23/07/2015
Quote from "Minute Logic: Chapter II. Prelogical Notions. Section I. Classification of the Sciences (Logic II)"

A purpose is merely that form of final cause which is most familiar to our experience.
Dictionary Entry | Posted 23/07/2015
Quote from "Minute Logic: Chapter II. Prelogical Notions. Section I. Classification of the Sciences (Logic II)"

A purpose is an operative desire.
Article in Journal | Posted 29/10/2014
Bergman, Mats (2007). Common Grounds and Shared Purposes: On Some Pragmatic Ingredients of Communication
This article explores a set of key conceptions involved in Charles S. Peirce’s account of communication, building on the hypothesis that his semiotic can beneficially be approached from a...
Communication, Collateral Experience, Purpose, Vagueness
Monograph | Posted 16/10/2014
Gava, Gabriele (2014). Peirce's Account of Purposefulness: A Kantian Perspective

This book presents a systematic interpretation of Charles S. Peirce’s work based on a Kantian understanding of his teleological account of thought and inquiry. Departing from readings that...

Methodeutic, Speculative Rhetoric, Teleology, Purpose, Purposefulness, Purposiveness, Transcendental Philosophy, Transcendental Method, Kant, Fallibilism, Pragmatism, Critical Common-Sensism, Evolutionary Metaphysics, Prescision, Regulative Hope, William James, Thought, Inquiry
Manuscript | Posted 10/09/2014
Peirce, Charles S. (1905-07 [c.]). Considerations concerning the Doctrine of Multitude. MS [R] 27

Robin Catalogue:
A. MS., n.p., [c.1905-07?], pp. 1-5; 23, 24, 27, 29, 30.
The nature of definition; “collection” defined; first- and second-intentional collection.

Doctrine of Multitude, Mathematics, Georg Cantor, Bernard Bolzano, Whitehead, Definition, Mathematical Definition, Collection, Dyadic Relation, Triadic Relation, Multitude, Whole, Integral Whole, Member, Identity, Nothing, Thought, Purpose, Counting, Essence, Existence, Second Intention