Combining Philosophers

Ideas for Charles Sanders Peirce, Buddhaghosa and Bertrand Russell

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5. Theory of Logic / C. Ontology of Logic / 1. Ontology of Logic
Our research always hopes that reality embodies the logic we are employing [Peirce]
The only classes are things, predicates and relations [Russell]
Logic can only assert hypothetical existence [Russell]
Logic is highly general truths abstracted from reality [Russell, by Glock]
Logic is concerned with the real world just as truly as zoology [Russell]
Logic can be known a priori, without study of the actual world [Russell]
5. Theory of Logic / C. Ontology of Logic / 3. If-Thenism
Logic, unlike mathematics, is not hypothetical; it asserts categorical ends from hypothetical means [Peirce]
Pure mathematics deals only with hypotheses, of which the reality does not matter [Peirce]
Geometrical axioms imply the propositions, but the former may not be true [Russell]