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All the ideas for 'fragments/reports', 'The Doctrine of Necessity Examined' and 'Pragmatism in Retrospect'

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9 ideas

3. Truth / E. Pragmatic Truth / 1. Pragmatic Truth
15335 Peirce's theory offers anti-realist verificationism, but surely how things are is independent of us? [Horsten on Peirce]
14796 Independent truth (if there is any) is the ultimate result of sufficient enquiry [Peirce]
10. Modality / B. Possibility / 7. Chance
14804 Is chance just unknown laws? But the laws operate the same, whatever chance occurs [Peirce]
12. Knowledge Sources / D. Empiricism / 3. Pragmatism
14795 Pragmatism is a way of establishing meanings, not a theory of metaphysics or a set of truths [Peirce]
22. Metaethics / B. Value / 2. Values / e. Death
14805 Is there any such thing as death among the lower organisms? [Peirce]
26. Natural Theory / A. Speculations on Nature / 6. Early Matter Theories / c. Ultimate substances
22745 Pherecydes said the first principle and element is earth [Pherecydes, by Sext.Empiricus]
26. Natural Theory / D. Laws of Nature / 4. Regularities / a. Regularity theory
14806 If the world is just mechanical, its whole specification has no more explanation than mere chance [Peirce]
26. Natural Theory / D. Laws of Nature / 11. Against Laws of Nature
14803 The more precise the observations, the less reliable appear to be the laws of nature [Peirce]
29. Religion / D. Religious Issues / 2. Immortality / a. Immortality
5883 Pherecydes was the first to say that the soul is eternal [Pherecydes, by Cicero]