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8 ideas

1. Philosophy / E. Nature of Metaphysics / 7. Against Metaphysics

14767	The demonstrations of the metaphysicians are all moonshine [Peirce]
	Full Idea: The demonstrations of the metaphysicians are all moonshine.
	From: Charles Sanders Peirce (Concerning the Author [1897], p.2)

1. Philosophy / G. Scientific Philosophy / 3. Scientism

14764	I am saturated with the spirit of physical science [Peirce]
	Full Idea: I am saturated, through and through, with the spirit of the physical sciences.
	From: Charles Sanders Peirce (Concerning the Author [1897], p.1)

11. Knowledge Aims / B. Certain Knowledge / 3. Fallibilism

14768	Infallibility in science is just a joke [Peirce]
	Full Idea: Infallibility in scientific matters seems to me irresistibly comical.
	From: Charles Sanders Peirce (Concerning the Author [1897], p.3)

12. Knowledge Sources / D. Empiricism / 2. Associationism

14765	Association of ideas is the best philosophical idea of the prescientific age [Peirce]
	Full Idea: The doctrine of the association of ideas is, to my thinking, the finest piece of philosophical work of the prescientific ages.
	From: Charles Sanders Peirce (Concerning the Author [1897], p.2)

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)

22. Metaethics / A. Ethics Foundations / 2. Source of Ethics / c. Ethical intuitionism

7258	The forefather of modern intuitionism is Richard Price [Price,R, by Dancy,J]
	Full Idea: The forefather of modern intuitionism is Richard Price.
	From: report of Richard Price (works [1760]) by Jonathan Dancy - Intuitionism

26. Natural Theory / A. Speculations on Nature / 5. Infinite in Nature

1748	Archelaus was the first person to say that the universe is boundless [Archelaus, by Diog. Laertius]
	Full Idea: Archelaus was the first person to say that the universe is boundless.
	From: report of Archelaus (fragments/reports [c.450 BCE]) by Diogenes Laertius - Lives of Eminent Philosophers 02.Ar.3

27. Natural Reality / G. Biology / 3. Evolution

5989	Archelaus said life began in a primeval slime [Archelaus, by Schofield]
	Full Idea: Archelaus wrote that life on Earth began in a primeval slime.
	From: report of Archelaus (fragments/reports [c.450 BCE]) by Malcolm Schofield - Archelaus
	A reaction: This sounds like a fairly clearcut assertion of the production of life by evolution. Darwin's contribution was to propose the mechanism for achieving it. We should honour the name of Archelaus for this idea.