The Doctrine of Chances
Title
The Doctrine of Chances
Subject
Description
Originally published in the Popular Science Monthly, vol. 12 (March 1878): 604-615. This is the third installment in Peirce's "Illustrations of the Logic of Science" series. It was originally intended by Peirce to be published as one paper along with the fourth installment in the series, "The Probability of Induction".
According to Houser and Kloesel (Eds.), The Essential Peirce, vol. 1 (Bloomington: Indiana, 1992), p. 142, this paper is "an early discussion of what will later become [Peirce's doctrine] of synechism", i.e., continuity. Here "Peirce argues that the assumption of continuity provides a powerful engine for logic, and he develops his theory of probabilities as the science of logic quantitatively treated....To be logical, Peirce says, men must not be selfish, for logic requires the identification of one's interests with those of an unlimited community."
Creator
Peirce, Charles Sanders (1839-1914)
Source
Popular Science Monthly, vol. 12 (March 1878): 604-615
Publisher
- (Full text) http://en.wikisource.org
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Date
1878-03
Contributor
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Relation
Format
- (Full text) text/html
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Language
English
Type
Text
Identifier
Coverage
Original Format
Text
- Date Added
- November 16, 2012
- Collection
- Illustrations of the Logic of Science, 1877-1878
- Item Type
- Document
- Tags
- community, continuity, probability, statistics, synechism
- Citation
- Peirce, Charles Sanders (1839-1914), “The Doctrine of Chances,” Charles S. Peirce, Philosophical Writings, accessed April 17, 2024, https://cspeirce.omeka.net/items/show/4.