http://www.partiallyexaminedlife.com/2010/06/09/episode-20-pragmatism-peirce-and-james-2/
- Pragmatism
- The Fixation of Belief
- How to Make Our Ideas Clear
- a response to descartes Rules for the Right Regulation of the Mind
- if it is clear and distinct to our minds, it will be true out of necessity
- peirce thinks this may be hogwash, though clarity helps to hold it together
- people tend to choose tenacity over scientific method
- Kant advocated a coherence theory of truth
- Peirce lost a lecturing position at JHU because he became affiliated with a gypsy
- what we are trying to do is gain fixed belief
- Kant rules out a posteriori metaphysics
- wants to give up the table of metaphysics
- Peirce referred to his system as an architectonic
- he's objecting to the traditional veiw of clear and distinctness
- how do you know that something really does seem "really obvious"
- he is a little bit of a fallibilist
- mathematicians change what they mean by number
- descartes just SAYS he can number a line to simulate magnitude
- but at this point you have changed what the Greeks meant by number
- pragmatisim is a way of resolving metaphysical disputes which seem interminably caught up in opposites
- truth is not logically prior
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