Grounds of Validity of the Laws of Logic: Further Consequences of Four Incapacities

Grounds of Validity of the Laws of Logic: Further Consequences of Four Incapacities

First published in the Journal of Speculative Philosophy, vol. 2 (1869): 193-208, this paper is the third and final installment of a series of three that appeared in the same journal during the period 1868-1869.

According to Houser and Kloesel (Eds.), The Essential Peirce, vol. 1 (Bloomington: Indiana, 1992), p. 56, in this paper, "Peirce works out a rationale for the objective validity of the laws of logic and, by linking epistemology with a social theory of logic, grounds induction in altruistic sentiments. He also discusses a version of the liar paradox and offers a solution based on the supposition that 'every proposition asserts its own truth,' and he makes his first published reference to De Morgan's work on the logic of relations."

Peirce, Charles Sanders (1839-1914)

Journal of Speculative Philosophy, vol. 2 (1869): 193-208

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