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Full Idea
Philosophy, although it uses no microscopes or other apparatus of special observation, is really an experimental science, resting on that experience which is common to us all.
Gist of Idea
Philosophy is an experimental science, resting on common experience
Source
Charles Sanders Peirce (The Nature of Mathematics [1898], I)
Book Ref
Peirce,Charles Sanders: 'Philosophical Writings of Peirce', ed/tr. Buchler,Justus [Dover 1940], p.139
A Reaction
The 'experimental' either implies that thought-experiments are central to the subject, or that philosophers are discussing the findings of scientists, but at a high level of theory and abstraction. Peirce probably means the latter. I can't disagree.
| 14789 | Experience is indeed our only source of knowledge, provided we include inner experience [Peirce] |
| 14782 | Philosophy is an experimental science, resting on common experience [Peirce] |
| 14783 | Logic, unlike mathematics, is not hypothetical; it asserts categorical ends from hypothetical means [Peirce] |
| 14784 | Ethics is the science of aims [Peirce] |
| 14786 | Some logical possibility concerns single propositions, but there is also compatibility between propositions [Peirce] |
| 14785 | The world is one of experience, but experiences are always located among our ideas [Peirce] |
| 14787 | Self-contradiction doesn't reveal impossibility; it is inductive impossibility which reveals self-contradiction [Peirce] |
| 14788 | Mathematics is close to logic, but is even more abstract [Peirce] |