selected and edited with an introd. by Justus Buchler.
.PUBLICATION, DISTRIBUTION, ETC
Place of Publication, Distribution, etc.
New York,
Name of Publisher, Distributor, etc.
Dover Publications
Date of Publication, Distribution, etc.
[1955]
PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION
Specific Material Designation and Extent of Item
386 p.
Other Physical Details
illus.
Dimensions
21 cm.
GENERAL NOTES
Text of Note
"An unabridged and unaltered republication of the book first published in 1940 under the title 'The philosophy of Peirce: selected writings.'"
CONTENTS NOTE
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Concerning the author -- The fixation of belief -- How to make our ideas clear -- The scientific attitude and fallibilism -- Philosophy and the sciences : a classification -- The principles of phenomenology -- Logic as semiotic : the theory of signs -- The criterion of validity in reasoning -- What is a leading principle? -- The nature of mathematics -- Abduction and induction -- On the doctrine of chances, with later reflections -- The probablity of induction -- The general theory of probable inference -- Uniformity -- Come consequences of four incapacities -- The essentials of pragmatism -- Pragmatism in retrospect : a last formulation -- Critical common-sensism -- Perceptual judgments -- Two notes : motives, on percepts -- The approach to metaphysics -- The architecture of theories -- The doctrine of necessity examined -- The law of mind -- Synechism, fallibilism, and evolution -- Evoluntionary love -- The concept of god