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Full Idea
The real world is the world of sensible experience, and it is part of the process of sensible experience to locate its facts in the world of ideas.
Gist of Idea
The world is one of experience, but experiences are always located among our ideas
Source
Charles Sanders Peirce (The Nature of Mathematics [1898], III)
Book Ref
Peirce,Charles Sanders: 'Philosophical Writings of Peirce', ed/tr. Buchler,Justus [Dover 1940], p.146
A Reaction
This is the neatest demolition of the sharp dividing line between empiricism and rationalism that I have ever encountered.
Related Idea
Idea 14789 Experience is indeed our only source of knowledge, provided we include inner experience [Peirce]
| 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] |