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Reasoning and the logic of things : the Cambridge conferences lectures of 1898

Charles S. Peirce, Kenneth Laine Ketner (Editor, Writer of introduction), Hilary Putnam (Writer of introduction)
Charles Sanders Peirce (1839-1914) was an American philosopher, physicist, mathematician and founder of pragmatism. This book provides readers with philosopher's only known, complete account of his own work. It comprises a series of lectures given in Cambridge, Massachusetts in 1898
Print Book, English, 1992
Harvard University Press, Cambridge, Mass., 1992
xiv, 297 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
9780674749665, 9780674749672, 0674749669, 0674749677
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Introduction. The consequences of mathematics / Kenneth Laine Ketner and Hilary Putnam
Comments on the lectures / Hilary Putnam
Lecture 1. Philosophy and the conduct of life
Lecture 2. Types of reasoning
Exordium for lecture 3
Lecture 3. The logic of relatives
Lecture 4. First rule of logic
Lecture 5. Training in reasoning
Lecture 6. Causation and force
Lecture 7. Habit
Lecture 8. The logic of continuity