> On Nov 28, 2016, at 8:29 PM, Jerry Rhee <[email protected]> wrote: > > “I look upon Mr. Peirce as an extreme nominalist, or, if he prefers it, as a > nominal realist soaked with nominalistic opinions. He professes to be a > realist, but he rescinds the foundation of realism. Like the bear of the > hermit Mr. Peirce throws the stone at the fly of necessary connection, and in > doing so kills the philosophy of realism itself... > > In summing up the result of the whole battle, we find that there is not a > single question on which we have to yield or even modify our position. Our > position remains the same, while Mr. Peirce's position has become glaringly > untenable.” > > ~Paul Carus, Monist, 1893,
Not sure how that relates to the other discussion but one should note that in the 1890’s Peirce shifted from a moderate realist largely following Duns Scotus to a stronger realist largely on the basis of how he considered thirdness ontologically. So a quote from 1893 is almost certainly in reference to his moderate realist phase. I should add that even with either the Scotus styled moderate realism or the stronger realism that took thirdness as fully mind independent, that Peirce and Dewey did route a third way between the extremes of realism and idealism. That continued through the idealist/realist debates up to around the post war period when positivism and analytic philosophy became dominate.
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