Single Idea 14785

[catalogued under 12. Knowledge Sources / D. Empiricism / 5. Empiricism Critique]

Full Idea

The real world is the world of sensible experience, and it is part of the process of sensible experience to locate its facts in the world of ideas.

Gist of Idea

The world is one of experience, but experiences are always located among our ideas

Source

Charles Sanders Peirce (The Nature of Mathematics [1898], III)

Book Reference

Peirce,Charles Sanders: 'Philosophical Writings of Peirce', ed/tr. Buchler,Justus [Dover 1940], p.146


A Reaction

This is the neatest demolition of the sharp dividing line between empiricism and rationalism that I have ever encountered.

Related Idea

Idea 14789 Experience is indeed our only source of knowledge, provided we include inner experience [Peirce]