Atila, List: It is not a quotation from CP 5.423, but perhaps a loose paraphrase of it. Peirce states there that the doctrine of pragmatism "will serve to show that almost every proposition of ontological metaphysics is either meaningless gibberish--one word being defined by other words, and they by still others, without any real conception ever being reached--or else is downright absurd; so that all such rubbish being swept away, what will remain of philosophy will be a series of problems capable of investigation by the observational methods of the true sciences ..." It again says nothing about "the theory of signs," "Germans and their American followers," or "going to sleep."
Regards, Jon Alan Schmidt - Olathe, Kansas, USA Structural Engineer, Synechist Philosopher, Lutheran Christian www.LinkedIn.com/in/JonAlanSchmidt / twitter.com/JonAlanSchmidt On Mon, Sep 22, 2025 at 8:40 PM Atila Bayat <[email protected]> wrote: > Jerry, > > Actually, I read that passage and it is from CP 5.423, 1905, and a > disparaging reference to 'German and their American followers' asleep doing > armchair metaphysics, rather than scientific metaphysics, as an inquiry > guided by the scientific spirit of reasoning and experience. > > Your CP 5.189 is on abduction, a wonderful subject by itself. Run your > prompt again. > > Atila >
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