Single Idea 21491

[catalogued under 8. Modes of Existence / C. Powers and Dispositions / 6. Dispositions / d. Dispositions as occurrent]

Full Idea

The realism about possibilities, generalities, tendencies and habits that we find in Peirce's later maxim is something that the logical positivists would have been uncomfortable with.

Gist of Idea

Peirce's later realism about possibilities and generalities went beyond logical positivism

Source

report of Charles Sanders Peirce (works [1892]) by Albert Atkin - Peirce 2 'Concl'

Book Reference

Atkin,Albert: 'Peirce' [Routledge 2016], p.69


A Reaction

Atkin examines the various later statements of the earlier maxim, given here in Idea 21490. Ryle and Quine express the empiricist and logical positivist approach to dispositions.

Related Ideas

Idea 14297 A dispositional property is not a state, but a liability to be in some state, given a condition [Ryle]

Idea 16945 We judge things to be soluble if they are the same kind as, or similar to, things that do dissolve [Quine]