Chance, Love, and Logic: Philosophical Essays
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Chance, Love, and Logic contains two books by Charles Sanders Peirce (1839–1914) which are among his most important and widely influential. The first is Illustrations of the Logic of Science . The opening chapters, “The Fixation of Belief” and “How to Make Our Ideas Clear,” mark the beginning of pragmatism. The second presents Peirce’s innovative and influential essays on scientific metaphysics.
Chapters (405)
- Chance, Love, and Logic
- PREFACE
- TABLE OF CONTENTS
- INTRODUCTION
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- II
- III
- IV
- PROEM THE RULES OF PHILOSOPHY[25]
- PART I CHANCE AND LOGIC (ILLUSTRATIONS OF THE LOGIC OF SCIENCE)
- CHANCE AND LOGIC FIRST PAPER THE FIXATION OF BELIEF[26]
- I
- II
- III
- IV
- V
- SECOND PAPER HOW TO MAKE OUR IDEAS CLEAR[31]
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- II
- III
- IV
- THIRD PAPER THE DOCTRINE OF CHANCES[34]
- I
- II
- III
- IV
- V
- FOURTH PAPER THE PROBABILITY OF INDUCTION[40]
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- II
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- FIFTH PAPER THE ORDER OF NATURE[44]
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- IV
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- SIXTH PAPER DEDUCTION, INDUCTION, AND HYPOTHESIS[51]
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- V
- PART II LOVE AND CHANCE
- I. THE ARCHITECTURE OF THEORIES[54]
- II. THE DOCTRINE OF NECESSITY EXAMINED[59]
- III. THE LAW OF MIND[61]
- WHAT THE LAW IS
- INDIVIDUALITY OF IDEAS
- CONTINUITY OF IDEAS
- INFINITY AND CONTINUITY, IN GENERAL
- ANALYSIS OF TIME
- THAT FEELINGS HAVE INTENSIVE CONTINUITY
- THAT FEELINGS HAVE SPATIAL EXTENSION
- AFFECTIONS OF IDEAS
- IDEAS CANNOT BE CONNECTED EXCEPT BY CONTINUITY
- MENTAL LAW FOLLOWS THE FORMS OF LOGIC
- UNCERTAINTY OF MENTAL ACTION
- RESTATEMENT OF THE LAW
- PERSONALITY
- COMMUNICATION
- CONCLUSION
- IV. MAN’S GLASSY ESSENCE[63]
- V. EVOLUTIONARY LOVE[72] AT FIRST BLUSH. COUNTER-GOSPELS
- SECOND THOUGHTS. IRENICA.
- A THIRD ASPECT. DISCRIMINATION
- Supplementary Essay THE PRAGMATISM OF PEIRCE BY John Dewey
- BIBLIOGRAPHY OF PEIRCE’S PUBLISHED WRITINGS
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