Peirceans,
My transcription of Lowell Lecture 7 of 1903 is now available at the SPIN
site,
https://www.fromthepage.com/jeffdown1/c-s-peirce-manuscripts/ms-473-474-1903
-lowell-lecture-vii , and has been added to the series on my website, at
http://gnusystems.ca/Lowell7.htm. This one is all about inductive reasoning.
Again I don't plan to serialize it on the list, as I did with the first
three lectures, but any discussion of it is welcome. Here's a sample
paragraph:
[[ The second order of induction only infers that a theory is very much like
the truth, because we are so far from ever being authorized to conclude that
a theory is the very truth itself, that we can never so much as understand
what that means. Light is electro-magnetic vibrations; that is to say, it
[is] something very like that. In order to say that it is precisely that, we
should have to know precisely what we mean by electro-magnetic vibrations.
Now we never can know precisely what we mean by any description whatever. ]
MS 473 CSP 60-2 ]
Gary f.
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