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 Reference
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]