An Essay toward Improving Our Reasoning in Security and in Uberty
Resource ID
25004
Access
Open
Contributed by
Frederik Wellmann
type of material
A. MS.
description
Defense of final causes. Ratiocination and instinct. CSP is guided by the following maxim: Define all mental characters as far as possible in terms of their outward manifestations. This maxim is roughly equivalent to the rule of pragmatism. It can be said to aid security but not uberty of reasoning. "Yet the maxim of Pragmatism does not bestow a single smile upon beauty, upon moral virtue, or upon abstract truth, the three things that alone raise Humanity above Animality." The science of psychology is of no help in laying the foundations of a sane philosophy of reasoning, and precisely why CSP believes this to be so.
general index
final Causation, Instinct, Logic (modal see Modality), Pragmatism and Pragmaticism, Psychology, Ratiocination, Reasoning (probable see also Probability), uberty of Reasoning
pagination
pp. 1-53, with 10 pp. of variants
Date
1913~
number
MS0682_054
abbreviated title
-
date (Robin)
c. 1913