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Nominalistic and realistic metaphysics. The verso of one page includes a brief comment on the meaning of in relation to the views of Albertus Magnus and Duns Scotus. On the possible sources of knowledge. Notes for my little book on Religion A. One page provides what is probably the topical outline of a book would have treated the relationship between science and religion.
The manuscript of 4 pp. The manuscript of 7 pp. Anticipated awakening of religious life, with greater simplicity of belief and greater spiritualization of the creeds. The Church's claim to infallibility is sound enough if by "infallibility" is meant practical infallibility. The denial of mechanical infallibilism, coupled with a plea for the moderation of religious infallibilism. Agnosticism is found intolerable. The reconciliation of religion and science can not be accomplished by a religion of science.
Published in entirety as 1. The effect of religious exercises upon morality. Hume on Miracles H on M A. Published in entirety as 6. The meaning of the phrase "Law of Nature," and the history of its usage. The Aristotelian theory of growth and potentiality. Scholastic realism and substantial forms. The anti-Aristotelianism of Ockham. The Cartesian view of "law. What is a Law of Nature?
Hume's argument against miracles. Hume and his contemporaries. Miracles and the laws of nature. How the idea of evolution has influenced philosophy. Metaphysics must be based upon a correct systematic logic. Whether philosophy should be divided into two parts logic and metaphysics or three parts logic, metaphysics, and ethics. Hedonism and the distinction between pleasure and satisfaction.
Ultimate or final ends or aims. The Order of Nature TS. CSP's , Ge, 14 pp. Parts of a draft or drafts of one or more lectures delivered at The Johns Hopkins University about , perhaps that on "Design and Chance" before the Metaphysical Club on January 17, Analysis of conceptions of design and intelligence. The tendencies of things toward ends. Darwin's influence upon both science and philosophy. The operation of chance. Sketch of a course of half-hour lectures followed by conversation.
The three basic kinds of reasoning: The justification of reasoning. Spiritualism examined; plan for four articles. On the reverse side of three of these pages are drafts of two letters, one of which is addressed to Murrian and the other unaddressed. Logic and Spiritualism TS. This manuscript was intended for The Forum after correcting the galleys CSP became dissatisfied with his efforts and so the article was never published. Logic and Spiritualism A.
On spiritualism and scientific open-mindedness. Adequate discussion of spiritualism requires a satisfactory solution to the soul-body problem. CSP's suggestion that matter be regarded as a modification of mind rather than mind as a modification of matter. CSP has never attended a successful seance. He speaks of himself as "a hidebound sceptic," but admits that there is no direct argument against spiritualism and telepathy. Protestantism and Roman-Catholicism on the question of miracles.
Published, in part, as 7. Common sense flatly denies telepathy. CSP finds the theory doubtful and rejects it provisionally. An Examination of an Argument of Messrs. Gurney, Myers, and Podmore" TS. One of these drafts is a typescript of G An analysis of case histories of psychic phenomena in Gurney's Phantasms of the Living. Immortality in the Light of Synechism A. Book of Psalms] A. The only solution to the problem of evil is to accept the fact that Supreme Love embraces hate, and that sin is a creation of God.
Private thoughts principally on the conducted life A. Call number Am Thirty-nine pages, being a collection of aphorisms on such subjects as genius, love, solitude, worship, prayer, heaven, impudence and grace, passion and pleasure, freedom and causation, classification of the human faculties. Entry number LXX, for instance, is dated Nov.
Religion and Politics A. Five pages of the manuscript were published as 1. Logical analysis of "Cogito, ergo sum. The Kantian categories of totality, plurality, and unity are nearly CSP's. Criticism of Kant's views on the functions of judgments. Generous and degenerate Thirdness. Entelechy as the mode of being constituted by generous Thirdness.
Metaphysics as an "imitation" of geometry. Both geometrical and metaphysical axioms may be doubted. Brief account of CSP's cosmology. The List of Categories: A Second Essay Cat A. Explanation of the use of the expression "Cenopythagorean. The elements of the world are such that each expressly excludes the possibility of any contradiction. The whole, in this case, is such as it is by virtue of what the elements are. Some implications of this hypothesis. An attempt to develop my categories from within L of M A.
Fundamental Categories of Thought and of Nature A. Published, in part, as 1. If the three categories are connected with reasoning, they must be present in the mind as innate ideas when reasoning first takes place. The three mental faculties corresponding to the three categories of logic are feeling, volition, and cognition. The three elements of consciousness must be capable of physiological explanation. Speculation as to whether the cell may contain all the fundamental elements of the universe. The Author's Response to the anticipated Suspicion that he attaches a superstitious or fanciful importance to the number three, and forces Divisions to a Procrustean Bed of Trichotomy R A.
The classification of the animal world is continued. CSP's admission of his slight acquaintance with zoology and, in spite of his study of classification under Agassiz for six months , his "incapacity" for this kind of work. An examination of Huxley's classification of fish. Artificial things are classified, with a view toward establishing trichotomies. Fragments of other drafts of MS. The manuscript is on paper with a watermark of and so must be dated or later. The two-page sequence was published as 1. The other pages offer an explanation of the three categories and touch upon the three kinds of philosophies of the absolute, namely, Epicureanism, pessimism, and evolutionism.
One, Two, Three A. Rough notes on the three categories. An attempt to explain Firstness, Secondness, and Thirdness with the use of examples. The reason for not giving abstract definitions of the conceptions of Firstness, Secondness, and Thirdness. A denial that the One of Parmenides, the unity of "I think," or any other unities discussed by philosophers have anything at all to do with Firstness.
A deduction of the Categories. The breadth of pragmaticism.
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The elements of the phaneron. A Guess at the Riddle [and] Notes for a Book to be entitled: A Guess at the Riddle TS.
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The "Notes" alone were published as follows: A triple character has two degrees of degeneracy. Degeneracy of a dual character. Nondegenerate dual relation is a real relation. Primian, Secundian, Tertian] A. The nature of signs. The concepts of one, two, three are inseparably connected. The concept of four and of any higher number is a "complication" of three.
In this connection CSP's dispute with Sylvester is mentioned. The Modus of the It A. That which is in the sensible world enters the mental world by means of a revelation which is part of the abstract world. Three kinds of absolute existence. Three kinds of necessary modes: Three kinds of influxial derivation. The It and the Thou. I, It, and Thou: A Book giving Instructions in some of the elements of Thought A. The relationships of the three different worlds in which I, It, and Thou are discovered.
On the Classification of the Human Faculties A. The seven faculties exhibiting strong Kantian influence. Arousing regarded as a special faculty, which guarantees the intelligibility of free will. Classification of the I-impulse, It-impulse, Thou-impulse. Outlines for a book on metaphysics - the queen of the sciences, the supreme science.
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The classification of artificial objects with reference to final causes. Symbols and their objects. Sundry comments on life and death, heaven and hell, and on the soul. The first three chapters constitute the "Introduction" and are as follows: More generally, these chapters are concerned with metaphysics as the philosophy of primal truths; that is, whose truths are the primary conditions of all science.
Fundamental distinctions of metaphysics. Metaphysics, psychology, and religion. Notes on the work of Kant, Hume, and Mansel. Idealism, materialism, realistic pantheism as representing the three worlds of mind, matter, and God. These worlds mutually exclude and include each other. Examples of the necessity of diflection and ordination. Several other titles are distinguishable of which the comprehensive title is: The first book of this projected work would have had the title, "Principles of Metaphysical Investigation.
Truth and the nature of faith. On language, form, and plasticity. All reasoning can be represented syllogistically. The major premises - the principles of science - are the subjects of metaphysics. Metaphysics as theoretically essential to science.
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Science relies on the assumption that observation has value beyond itself. The need to discover some validity of the major premises given in sensation; otherwise assumption of the major premises is petitio principii. Major premises regarded as a priori, i. Judgments refer predicate to subject. The subject is assumed; the predicate is experienced.
All judgment is inference. Possible extensive relations of subject and predicate A. Quantities, qualities, real predicates, relations, forms of fact, reasonableness, and creative potentialities are all related. Admixture of chemical notes. Sketch of a New Philosophy A. Reasoning and experimentation essentially analogous. Philosophy is committed to the notion that the processes of nature and thought are alike.
Chance, law, and continuity. Mathematical and metaphysical axioms. The monism of modern psychology is materialistic. Eleven chapters contemplated, and these are outlined briefly. The training metaphysicians receive today is compared unfavorably with the training they received in the medieval universities. The difference between "would be" and "actually is" "was," or "will be". Mode of consciousness and the taking on of habits. Questions on Reality A. The earlier draft of 2 pp. Twelve questions asked and answered dogmatically. The questions are concerned with the possibility of ultimate cognitions; immediate self-consciousness; knowledge of the external world; truth and the agreement of logical conclusion with information; contradiction as not always signifying falsity; matter as not necessary to reality; thought and signs; the meaning of the "unknowable.
Is there any cognition which is absolutely incapable of being known? Have we any intuitions? Some of the questions raised in the earlier draft are raised again and this time answered less dogmatically. Potentia ex Impotentia A. The future of metaphysics depends upon its establishing a connection with tangible external facts.
Defense of the view that no sign means anything essentially incognizable. On knowledge of things-in-themselves. Idealism and first impressions of sense.
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Reality and figment not equated with Being and nothing. A figment is something, and therefore comes under the heading of Being. Primary qualities and feelings. Phenomenalism and the relativity of knowledge. The passage from being to substance is mediated by conception of accident.
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