Kirsti,
You say,
"What I'm curious about, is whether Peirce ever referred to these two as LAWS of mind. He may have considered them as psychological tendencies, or something like that (something empirical psychology could investigate). " (end)
I thought of the laws of association ( resemblance, contiguity) but those did not seem to fit the context because they would be applicable to every method of inquiry. What I suggested are what you call "tendencies" specific to the method of tenacity. On the other hand, both laws of association and particular tendencies can be investigated emprically. The problem, highlighted in part by Kasser, is that FOB is a mixture of psychological and phenomenological claims. I don't think that associational psychology plays much of a role in FOB. I do think there are a number of phenomenological descriptions of practical reason and so long as Peirce has no taste for the "pure practical reason" of Kant, these descriptions will involve psychological concepts such as desire, motivation, purpose, impulse etc.
JIm W
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Jim, Joe, et al.,
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JW: The explanation is teleological. What causes people to avoid changing their opinions? Why do people avoid changing their opinions? Peirce says,
> 1. an instinctive dislike of an undecided state of mind.... makes men > cling spasmodically to the views they already take.
> 2. a steady and immovable faith yields great peace of mind. (sec. 5 > FOB)
What I'm curious about, is whether Peirce ever referred to these two as LAWS of mind. He may have considered them as psychological tendencies, or something like that (something empirical psychology could investigate).
In my first response to Joe, I took the first question to be answered to be: whether Peirce is referring to his conceptions of laws of mind or to something established by the special science psychology.
IF Peirce is referring to his own conceptions (arrived at by meticulous experimentation on himself), then I can't see but two candidates. The law of association, which Peirce takes up as THE Law of Mind. This is the only law Peirce, to my mind, could have considered exclusively mental. The second candidate would be the law of habit.
But I'm somewhat in a loss here, because these views are a based on reading Collected Papers. With consequent difficulties in delineating the development of Peirce's views.
Kirsti Määttänen
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JW: The explanation is teleological. What causes people to avoid changing their opinions? Why do people avoid changing their opinions? Peirce says,
> 1. an instinctive dislike of an undecided state of mind.... makes men > cling spasmodically to the views they already take.
> 2. a steady and immovable faith yields great peace of mind. (sec. 5 > FOB)
What I'm curious about, is whether Peirce ever referred to these two as LAWS of mind. He may have considered them as psychological tendencies, or something like that (something empirical psychology could investigate).
In my first response to Joe, I took the first question to be answered to be: whether Peirce is referring to his conceptions of laws of mind or to something established by the special science psychology.
IF Peirce is referring to his own conceptions (arrived at by meticulous experimentation on himself), then I can't see but two candidates. The law of association, which Peirce takes up as THE Law of Mind. This is the only law Peirce, to my mind, could have considered exclusively mental. The second candidate would be the law of habit.
But I'm somewhat in a loss here, because these views are a based on reading Collected Papers. With consequent difficulties in delineating the development of Peirce's views.
Kirsti Määttänen
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