Dear Jon, list In the 70s I read as almost as much Frege and Russell as I did Peirce and I think I grasped Frege's attitude fairly well, along with the mess Russell made of just about everything he touched.
LOL! It is not the simple anachronism of the term, of course we have to re-describe positions in contemporary language. It has to do with projecting any Weltanschauung or ism on a thinker who protested the very idea of interpreting his position in that way. But I do not think anitpyschologism is a whole Weltanschauung. It is a fairly simple claim which can be put in six words: logic is not reducible to psychology. Of course, there are Marxism, liberalism, socialism and so on - but not all words with the suffix -ism necessarily refer to Weltanschauungen … And yes, that applies even to pragmat(ic)ism. Peirce's work has the power to lift our thinking off the plane of many old and pointless disputes. That is the attraction it always had for me, at any rate. Certainly! But the worst distortions of Peirce's thought come from trying to assimilate him to the very planes on which he is too, too solid to melt. Agreed - In the next chapter I compare Peirce's antipsychologism with Husserl's in order to gauge similarities and differences - (the same thing could and should be done with P and Frege; I chose Husserl because I think his early work is an overlooked resource much like Peirce) Best F
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