Single Idea 19241

[catalogued under 1. Philosophy / D. Nature of Philosophy / 5. Aims of Philosophy / e. Philosophy as reason]

Full Idea

There is no such thing as an absolutely detached idea. It would be no idea at all. For an idea is itself a continuous system.

Gist of Idea

An idea on its own isn't an idea, because they are continuous systems

Source

Charles Sanders Peirce (Reasoning and the Logic of Things [1898], III)

Book Reference

Peirce,Charles Sanders: 'Reasoning and the Logic of Things', ed/tr. Ketner,K.L. [Harvard 1992], p.163


A Reaction

This is the new anti-epigraph for this database. This idea is part of Peirce's idea that relations are the central feature of our grasp of the world.

Related Ideas

Idea 5891 Philosophy is the collection of rational arguments [Cicero]

Idea 19250 Everything interesting should be recorded, with records that can be rearranged [Peirce]