ONT Re: Inquiry Driven Systems
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Note 17
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CP 2.655. Three Logical Sentiments (concl.)
| It may seem strange that I should put forward three sentiments, namely,
| interest in an indefinite community, recognition of the possibility of
| this interest being made supreme, and hope in the unlimited continuance
| of intellectual activity, as indispensable requirements of logic. Yet,
| when we consider that logic depends on a mere struggle to escape doubt,
| which, as it terminates in action, must begin in emotion, and that,
| furthermore, the only cause of our planting ourselves on reason is
| that other methods of escaping doubt fail on account of the social
| impulse, why should we wonder to find social sentiment presupposed
| in reasoning? As for the other two sentiments which I find necessary,
| they are so only as supports and accessories of that. It interests me
| to notice that these three sentiments seem to be pretty much the same as
| that famous trio of Charity, Faith, and Hope, which in the estimation of
| St. Paul, are the finest and greatest of spiritual gifts. Neither Old
| nor New Testament is a textbook of the logic of science, but the latter
| is certainly the highest existing authority in regard to the dispositions
| of heart which a man ought to have.
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| C.S. Peirce, 'Collected Papers', CP 2.655
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