The Commens Dictionary

Quote from ‘Pragmatism’

Quote: 

It is not quite so true as Kant thought it to be that deduction is purely explicative; but the amplificative element that a certain kind of deduction, called theo’ric transformation, affords, consists, after all, only in new forms of conceiving old facts.

Date: 
1907
References: 
MS [R] 318:30
Citation: 
‘Theoric Transformation’ (pub. 14.10.15-18:41). 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-pragmatism-64.
Posted: 
Oct 14, 2015, 18:41 by Mats Bergman