The Fixation of Belief
Charles Sanders Peirce argues that the aim of inquiry is the fixation of belief, and that the scientific method is the most effective way of so doing.
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Few persons care to study logic, because everybody conceives himself to be proficient enough in t...
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The object of reasoning is to find out, from the consideration of what we already know, something...
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We generally know when we wish to ask a question and when we wish to pronounce a judgment, for th...
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The irritation of doubt causes a struggle to attain a state of belief. I shall term this struggle...
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If the settlement of opinion is the sole object of inquiry, and if belief is of the nature of a h...