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The Quantification Theory as a Phase in the Development of Charles S. Peirce’s Semiotic Idealism

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Tokariew S.

Filozofia Nauki

2017

vol. 25

issue 3

41-56

The paper aims to show that the quantification theory played a pivotal role in the development of Charles S. Peirce’s semiotic idealism. In the 1860s, Peirce argued that all names and judgments are general and used this claim as the basis for his semiotic idealism. This view was accompanied by the doctrine of scholastic realism, which supplemented his argument against individuality in all its forms. The quantification theory eventually helped Peirce to overcome his early idealism.

Peirce’s Pragmatic Maxim as a Logical Consequence of Semiotic Idealism

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Tokariew S.

Filozofia Nauki

2018

vol. 26

issue 2

5-12

The purpose of this paper is to show that the pragmatic maxim can be construed as a logical consequence of semiotic idealism. Peirce proposed his semiotic idealism in the 1860s and based it on two premises: first, that we could know only symbols and, second, that the only things that exist are those that could be known. From these premises, he concluded that only symbols exist. This conception was meant to refute the distinction between the substance and its phenomenal manifestations. If semiotic idealism implies the pragmatic maxim, then it becomes clear why the pragmatic maxim says that the conception of the effects of the object is the conception of the object: it is because Peirce thought that the effects are the object. Furthermore, the close link between these conceptions may account for Peirce’s prolonged silence about pragmatism.

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The Quantification Theory as a Phase in the Development of Charles S. Peirce’s Semiotic Idealism

Peirce’s Pragmatic Maxim as a Logical Consequence of Semiotic Idealism