I am delighted that someone has raised the Holmes issue and offered occasion for three related thoughts.
To speak of good as prior to logic
Logic cannot be assimilated into anything. It is a pristine utility of the mind. It is what we use to determine the…
Logic is good, our proposition goes. It is good for many reasons including the one suggested by…
So the truth is what is so. I am surrounded by so-ness. That book on the table, the sound in…
One of the nice things about writing here is that anyone in the world could read but…
I have already concluded that a theory of reasoning requires reasoning as a precedent to creating such a…
I do not believe that there is any method OF reasoning that is good or bad. Reasoning itself represents a conscious decision to dope something out. To get from a question or conundrum to what the case is.
Reasoning is figuring things out with an eye to what’s true. Peirce takes us on a great journey to get to this point. We have already suggested that we can make good guesses. Gathering them into what he calls abductions.
Well now, I will vouch that intuition is an abductive sort of thing and…