Chance, Love, and Logic: Philosophical Essays — Charles S. Peirce
Peirce You may copy it, give it away or re-use it under the terms of the Project Gutenberg License included with this eBook or online at www.gutenberg.org . If you are not located in the United States, you will have to check the laws of the country where you are located before using this eBook. Title : Chance, Love, and Logic: Philosophical Essays Author : Charles S. Peirce Contributor : John Dewey Editor : Morris R. Cohen Release date : May 7, 2021 [eBook #65274] Most recently updated: October 18, 2024 Language : English Other information and formats : www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/65274 Credits : Tim Lindell, David King, and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net. (This file was produced from images generously made available by The Internet Archive/American Libraries.) *** START OF K. Ogden, m.a. VOLUMES ALREADY PUBLISHED PHILOSOPHICAL STUDIES, by G. E. Moore , Litt.D. THE MISUSE OF MIND, by Karin Stephen . Prefatory note by Henri Bergson CONFLICT AND DREAM, by W. H. R. Rivers , F.R.S. PSYCHOLOGY AND POLITICS, by W. H. R. Rivers , F.R.S. TRACTATUS LOGICO-PHILOSOPHICUS, by L. Wittgenstein . Introduction by Bertrand Russell THE MEASUREMENT OF EMOTION, by W. Whately Smith . Introduction by William Brown PSYCHOLOGICAL TYPES, by C. G. Jung , M.D., LL.D. SCIENTIFIC THOUGHT, by C. D. Broad , Litt.D. THE MEANING OF MEANING, by C. K. Ogden and I. A. Richards CHARACTER AND THE UNCONSCIOUS, by J. H. van der Hoop IN PREPARATION SCIENTIFIC METHOD, by A. D. Ritchie THE ANALYSIS OF MATTER, by Bertrand Russell , F.R.S. PSYCHOLOGY AND ETHNOLOGY, by W. H. R. Rivers , F.R.S. INDIVIDUAL PSYCHOLOGY, by Alfred Adler MATHEMATICS FOR PHILOSOPHERS, by G. H. Hardy , F.R.S. THE PSYCHOLOGY OF MYTHS, by G. Elliot Smith , F.R.S. THE PHILOSOPHY OF THE UNCONSCIOUS by E. von Hartmann . Introduction by Prof. G. Elliot Smith THE THEORY OF MEDICAL DIAGNOSIS, by F. G. Crookshank , M.D., F.R.C.P. THE ELEMENTS OF PSYCHOTHERAPY, by William Brown , M.D., D.Sc. EMOTION AND INSANITY, by S. Thalbitzer . Introduction by Prof. H. Höffding THE LAWS OF FEELING, by F. Paulhan THE PSYCHOLOGY OF MUSIC, by Edward J. Dent COLOUR-HARMONY, by James Wood THE DEVELOPMENT OF CHINESE THOUGHT, by Liang Che Chiao THE HISTORY OF MATERIALISM, by F. A. Lange PSYCHE, by E. Rohde THE PRIMITIVE MIND, by P. Radin , Ph.D. THE PSYCHOLOGY OF PRIMITIVE PEOPLES, by B. Malinowski , Ph.D., D.Sc. THE STATISTICAL METHOD IN ECONOMICS, by P. Sargant Florence THE PRINCIPLES OF CRITICISM, by I. A. Richards THE PHILOSOPHY OF ‘AS IF’ by H. Vaihinger CHANCE, LOVE, AND LOGIC PHILOSOPHICAL ESSAYS BY THE LATE CHARLES S. PEIRCE THE FOUNDER OF PRAGMATISM EDITED WITH AN INTRODUCTION BY MORRIS R. COHEN WITH A SUPPLEMENTARY ESSAY ON THE PRAGMATISM OF PEIRCE BY JOHN DEWEY NEW YORK HARCOURT, BRACE & COMPANY, INC. LONDON: KEGAN PAUL TRENCH, TRUBNER & CO., LTD. 1923 COPYRIGHT, 1923, BY HARCOURT, BRACE AND COMPANY, INC. PRINTED IN THE U.S.A. Peirce PREFACE In the essays gathered together in this volume we have the most developed and coherent available account of the philosophy of Charles S. Peirce, whom James, Royce, Dewey, and leading thinkers in England, France, Germany and Italy have placed in the forefront of the great seminal minds of recent times. Besides their inherent value as the expression of a highly original and fruitful mind, unusually well trained and informed in the exact sciences, these essays are also important as giving us the sources of a great deal of contemporary American philosophy. Because of this historical importance no omissions or changes have been made in the text beyond the correction of some obvious slips and the recasting of a few expressions in the interest of intelligibility. In a subject which bristles with suggestions and difficulties the temptation to add notes of explanation or dissent is almost insuperable. But as such notes might easily have doubled the size of this volume I have refrained from all comment on the text except in a few footnotes (indicated, as usual, in brackets). The introduction is intended (and I hope it will) help the reader to concatenate the various lines of thought contained in these essays. I cannot pretend to have adequately indicated their significance. Great minds like those of James and Royce have been nourished by these writings and I am persuaded that they still offer mines of fruitful suggestion. Prof. Dewey’s supplementary essay indicates their value for the fundamental question of metaphysics, viz. the nature of reality. Grateful acknowledgment is here made to Mrs. Paul Carus and to the Open Court Publishing Co. for permission to reprint the essays of Part II from the Monist . The late Paul Carus was one of the very few who not only gave Peirce an opportunity to publish, but publicly recognized the importance of his writings. I must also acknowledge my obligation to Professor Dewey for kind permission to reprint his essay on the Pragmatism of Peirce from the Journal of Philosophy, and to the editors of that Journal, Professors Woodbridge and Bush, for permission to reprint some material of my own. Part V of the Bibliography was compiled by Mr. Irving Smith. Morris R. Cohen The College of the City of New York. Peirce TABLE OF CONTENTS Introduction vii Proem. The Rules of Philosophy 1 Part I. Chance and Logic (Illustrations of the Logic of Science.) 1. The Fixation of Belief 7 2. How to Make Our Ideas Clear 32 3. The Doctrine of Chances 61 4. The Probability of Induction 82 5. The Order of Nature 106 6. Deduction, Induction and Hypothesis 131 Part II. Love and Chance 1. The Architecture of Theories 157 2. The Doctrine of Necessity Examined 179 3. The Law of Mind 202 4. Man’s Glassy Essence 238 5. Evolutionary Love 267 Supplementary Essay —The Pragmatism of Peirce, by John Dewey 301 Peirce INTRODUCTION Many and diverse are the minds that form the philosophic community. There are, first and foremost, the great masters, the system builders who rear their stately palaces towering to the moon. Thes