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Chance, love, and logic : philosophical essays / Charles Sanders Peirce ; edited and introduced by Morris R. Cohen ; with an essay by John Dewey ; introduction to the Bison Books edition by Kenneth Laine Ketner.

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextPublication details: Lincoln : University of Nebraska Press, �1998.Description: 1 online resource (xlv, 318 pages) : illustrationsContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 0585265828
  • 9780585265827
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: Chance, love, and logic.DDC classification:
  • 191 21
LOC classification:
  • B945.P43 C5 1998eb
Other classification:
  • B087
  • B081. 1
  • N02
Online resources:
Contents:
Proem. The rules of philosophy -- The fixation of belief -- How to make our ideas clear -- The doctrine of chances -- The probability of induction -- The order of nature -- Deduction, induction and hypothesis -- The architecture of theories -- The doctrine of necessity examined -- The law of mind -- Man's glassy essence -- Evolutionary love -- The pragmatism of Peirce / by John Dewey -- Bibliography of Peirce's published writings.
Review: "Chance, Love, and Logic Contains two books by Charles Sanders Peirce (1839-1914) that 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."--Jacket.
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Originally published: New York : Harcourt, Brace and World, 1923.

"Bison books"--Preliminary page.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 309-318).

"Chance, Love, and Logic Contains two books by Charles Sanders Peirce (1839-1914) that 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."--Jacket.

Proem. The rules of philosophy -- The fixation of belief -- How to make our ideas clear -- The doctrine of chances -- The probability of induction -- The order of nature -- Deduction, induction and hypothesis -- The architecture of theories -- The doctrine of necessity examined -- The law of mind -- Man's glassy essence -- Evolutionary love -- The pragmatism of Peirce / by John Dewey -- Bibliography of Peirce's published writings.

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