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Single Idea 21491

[filed under theme 8. Modes of Existence / C. Powers and Dispositions / 6. Dispositions / d. Dispositions as occurrent ]

Full Idea

The realism about possibilities, generalities, tendencies and habits that we find in Peirce's later maxim is something that the logical positivists would have been uncomfortable with.

Gist of Idea

Peirce's later realism about possibilities and generalities went beyond logical positivism

Source

report of Charles Sanders Peirce (works [1892]) by Albert Atkin - Peirce 2 'Concl'

Book Ref

Atkin,Albert: 'Peirce' [Routledge 2016], p.69

A Reaction

Atkin examines the various later statements of the earlier maxim, given here in Idea 21490. Ryle and Quine express the empiricist and logical positivist approach to dispositions.

Related Ideas

Idea 14297 A dispositional property is not a state, but a liability to be in some state, given a condition [Ryle]

Idea 16945 We judge things to be soluble if they are the same kind as, or similar to, things that do dissolve [Quine]

The 11 ideas from 'works'

21489 Super-ordinate disciplines give laws or principles; subordinate disciplines give concrete cases [Peirce, by Atkin]
19095 Pragmatic 'truth' is a term to cover the many varied aims of enquiry [Peirce, by Misak]
19097 Peirce did not think a belief was true if it was useful [Peirce, by Misak]
21494 If truth is the end of enquiry, what if it never ends, or ends prematurely? [Atkin on Peirce]
19102 Bivalence is a regulative assumption of enquiry - not a law of logic [Peirce, by Misak]
10352 The real is the idea in which the community ultimately settles down [Peirce]
21491 Peirce's later realism about possibilities and generalities went beyond logical positivism [Peirce, by Atkin]
16376 The possible can only be general, and the force of actuality is needed to produce a particular [Peirce]
13498 Peirce and others began the mapping out of relations [Peirce, by Hart,WD]
19107 Inquiry is not standing on bedrock facts, but standing in hope on a shifting bog [Peirce]
21493 Pure mathematics deals only with hypotheses, of which the reality does not matter [Peirce]