Summary of James Hoopes's Peirce on Signs

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#1 We can discuss anything if we can define it. We can define anything we can understand. We can give intelligible definitions of many things that cannot be comprehended in and of themselves.

• Language: English
• Publisher: IRB Media
• Release date: May 20, 2022
• ISBN: 9798822522596

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Insights on James Hoopes's Peirce on Signs

Contents

Insights from Chapter 1

Insights from Chapter 2

Insights from Chapter 3

Insights from Chapter 4

Insights from Chapter 5

Insights from Chapter 6

Insights from Chapter 7

Insights from Chapter 8

Insights from Chapter 9

Insights from Chapter 10

Insights from Chapter 11

Insights from Chapter 12

Insights from Chapter 13

Insights from Chapter 14

Insights from Chapter 15

Insights from Chapter 16

Insights from Chapter 17

Insights from Chapter 18

Insights from Chapter 19

Insights from Chapter 20

Insights from Chapter 21

Insights from Chapter 1

#1

We can discuss anything if we can define it. We can define anything we can understand. We can give intelligible definitions of many things that cannot be comprehended in and of themselves.

Insights from Chapter 2

#1

If the mind immediately perceives ideas but those ideas are not representative of things without, then the truth of those representative ideas is in doubt. Immanuel Kant had addressed this issue in his Critic of Pure Reason.

#2

The Transcendentalists believe that all knowledge is an inference from sensual minor premisses. They then go on to test all our Conceptions as to objective validity by finding whether they are anything but particular expressions of the I think or of sensuousness.

#3

Kant believed in the validity of the Ideas of pure reason, but he did not believe in faith. He believed that nothing that rests only on inference can be certain. Thus, he left room for the possibility of proving the opposite which would establish the validity of faith.

#4

The argument has the following advantages. It puts faith on the same ground as all certitude. It does not make it so sure that it is no longer faith. It explains how we were already sure before we had reasoned about faith.

#5

Faith is not a purely intellectual principle. It is an unaccountable impulse to confide in certain truths. It is the recognition by consciousness of itself.

#6

The Nature of Metaphysics is the analysis of Conceptions. In our investigations, metaphysics is to be taken as the analysis of Conceptions. We must ask the critical question: How should the conceptions that spring up freely in our minds be true for the outward world.

#7

Truth is the agreement of a representation with its object. Truth is partial when it is only partially true. Verisimilitude is partial truth. falsehood is a representation that is not a copy of truth, and is therefore not true.

Insights from Chapter 3

#1

Peirce’s list of the fundamental categories of thought is the gift he makes to the world. He remains loyal to this paper’s typology of representamens: likeness, index, and symbol.

#2

The theory that the function of conceptions is to reduce the manifold of sensuous impressions to unity is based on the fact that the validity of a conception depends on the impossibility of reducing the content of consciousness to unity without the introduction of it.

#3

The terms prescision and abstraction are now limited to mental separation that arises from attention to one element and neglect of the other. Abstraction or prescision is not a reciprocal process. It is frequently the case that while A cannot be prescinded from B, B can be prescinded from A.

#4

The first universal elementary conception is that of being, which is the union of a term to express the substance and another to express the quality of that substance. The function of the conception of being is to unite the quality to the substance.

#5

The fact that we can know a quality