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Single Idea 14780

[filed under theme 5. Theory of Logic / A. Overview of Logic / 3. Value of Logic ]

Full Idea

It is foolish to study logic unless one is persuaded that one's own reasonings are more or less bad.

Gist of Idea

Only study logic if you think your own reasoning is deficient

Source

Charles Sanders Peirce (Criterion of Validity in Reasoning [1903], II)

Book Ref

Peirce,Charles Sanders: 'Philosophical Writings of Peirce', ed/tr. Buchler,Justus [Dover 1940], p.127

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The 4 ideas from 'Criterion of Validity in Reasoning'

14779

I reason in order to avoid disappointment and surprise [Peirce]

14777

That a judgement is true and that we judge it true are quite different things [Peirce]

14778

Facts are hard unmoved things, unaffected by what people may think of them [Peirce]

14780

Only study logic if you think your own reasoning is deficient [Peirce]