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Single Idea 21489

[filed under theme 1. Philosophy / E. Nature of Metaphysics / 3. Metaphysical Systems ]

Full Idea

In Peirce's system, a super-ordinate discipline provides general laws or principles for subordinate disciplines, which in turn provide concrete examples of those general laws.

Gist of Idea

Super-ordinate disciplines give laws or principles; subordinate disciplines give concrete cases

Source

report of Charles Sanders Peirce (works [1892]) by Albert Atkin - Peirce 1 'System'

Book Ref

Atkin,Albert: 'Peirce' [Routledge 2016], p.17


A Reaction

Does he really mean that subordinate disciplines have no principles or laws? That can't be right.


The 11 ideas from 'works'

Super-ordinate disciplines give laws or principles; subordinate disciplines give concrete cases [Peirce, by Atkin]
Pragmatic 'truth' is a term to cover the many varied aims of enquiry [Peirce, by Misak]
Peirce did not think a belief was true if it was useful [Peirce, by Misak]
If truth is the end of enquiry, what if it never ends, or ends prematurely? [Atkin on Peirce]
Bivalence is a regulative assumption of enquiry - not a law of logic [Peirce, by Misak]
The real is the idea in which the community ultimately settles down [Peirce]
Peirce's later realism about possibilities and generalities went beyond logical positivism [Peirce, by Atkin]
The possible can only be general, and the force of actuality is needed to produce a particular [Peirce]
Peirce and others began the mapping out of relations [Peirce, by Hart,WD]
Inquiry is not standing on bedrock facts, but standing in hope on a shifting bog [Peirce]
Pure mathematics deals only with hypotheses, of which the reality does not matter [Peirce]