Empiricism Expanded

Transactions of the Charles S. Peirce Society 51 (1):1 (2015)
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Two aspects of Peirce’s mature philosophy seem to me not to have been sufficiently appreciated. They are its empiricist method and its continuity with his scientific research. The research led to and justified the method.1Ground must be cleared before we can proceed. Simplistic ideas of the empirical must be swept aside and Peirce’s empiricism accurately identified. We must also distinguish two theories of meaning that have been associated with empiricist philosophies and show that Peirce combined them ; this will be essential to Section 6. Only then can we get down to work. Peirce’s experimental and other studies of observation showed that a science of..

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