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Ideas for 'Concerning the Author', 'Some Models for Implicature' and 'The New Organon'

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14. Science / B. Scientific Theories / 1. Scientific Theory

14766	Duns Scotus offers perhaps the best logic and metaphysics for modern physical science [Peirce]
	Full Idea: The works of Duns Scotus have strongly influenced me. …His logic and metaphysics, torn away from its medievalism, …will go far toward supplying the philosophy which is best to harmonize with physical science.
	From: Charles Sanders Peirce (Concerning the Author [1897], p.2)

14. Science / B. Scientific Theories / 2. Aim of Science

21950	Science must clear away the idols of the mind if they are ever going to find the truth [Bacon]
	Full Idea: We must clear away the idols and false notions which are now in possession of the human understanding, and have taken deep root therein, and so beset men's minds that truth can hardly find an entrance.
	From: Francis Bacon (The New Organon [1620], 38), quoted by Mark Wrathall - Heidegger: how to read 2
	A reaction: [He goes on to list the types of idol]