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Chance, love, and logic : philosophical essays

Author: Charles S Peirce; Morris Raphael Cohen; John Dewey
Publisher: Lincoln : University of Nebraska Press, ©1998.
Edition/Format:   Book : State or province government publication : EnglishView all editions and formats
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"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."--BOOK JACKET.
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Material Type: Government publication, State or province government publication
Document Type: Book
All Authors / Contributors: Charles S Peirce; Morris Raphael Cohen; John Dewey
ISBN: 0803287518 9780803287518
OCLC Number: 38168346
Notes: Originally published: New York : Barnes & Noble, 1923.
"Bison books"--P. preceding t.p.
Description: xlv, 318 p. : ill. ; 21 cm.
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.
Responsibility: 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.
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"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."--BOOK JACKET.

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