Combining Texts

All the ideas for 'Concerning the Author', 'talk' and 'fragments/reports'

expand these ideas     |    start again     |     specify just one area for these texts

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7 ideas

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

14767

The demonstrations of the metaphysicians are all moonshine [Peirce]

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

14764

I am saturated with the spirit of physical science [Peirce]

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

14768

Infallibility in science is just a joke [Peirce]

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

14765

Association of ideas is the best philosophical idea of the prescientific age [Peirce]

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

14766

Duns Scotus offers perhaps the best logic and metaphysics for modern physical science [Peirce]

14. Science / C. Induction / 5. Paradoxes of Induction / b. Raven paradox

7006	Observing irrelevant items supports both 'all x are y' and 'all x are non-y', revealing its absurdity [Schofield,J]

28. God / C. Attitudes to God / 3. Deism

1558	Clearly the gods ignore human affairs, or they would have given us justice [Thrasymachus]