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Full Idea
The works of Duns Scotus have strongly influenced me. …His logic and metaphysics, torn away from its medievalism, …will go far toward supplying the philosophy which is best to harmonize with physical science.
Gist of Idea
Duns Scotus offers perhaps the best logic and metaphysics for modern physical science
Source
Charles Sanders Peirce (Concerning the Author [1897], p.2)
Book Ref
Peirce,Charles Sanders: 'Philosophical Writings of Peirce', ed/tr. Buchler,Justus [Dover 1940], p.2
14764 | I am saturated with the spirit of physical science [Peirce] |
14766 | Duns Scotus offers perhaps the best logic and metaphysics for modern physical science [Peirce] |
14765 | Association of ideas is the best philosophical idea of the prescientific age [Peirce] |
14767 | The demonstrations of the metaphysicians are all moonshine [Peirce] |
14768 | Infallibility in science is just a joke [Peirce] |