Re: C.S. Peirce • Objective Logic

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Objective Logic (concl.)

But this seems to be in conflict with our conception of Being, particularly as derived from
the notion of symbol;  which, however, is solidly founded, too.  We now begin to see the sense
of talking of modes of being.  They are elements of coöperation toward the ''summum bonum''.
The categories now come in to aid us materially, and we clearly make out three modes or factors
of being, which we proceed to make clear to ourselves.  Arrived at this point, we can construct
a ''Weltanschauung''.  From this platform, ethics acquires a new significance, as will be shown.
Logic, too, shines forth with all its native nobility.  Common men carry this ''Weltanschauung''
in their breasts;  and perhaps the pimp, the looting missionary, the Jay Gould, may, through the
shadows of their degradation, catch now and then a purer glimpse of it, than the most earnest of
citizens, the Cartises, the Emersons, the Bishop Myriels.  It is beautifully universal;  and one
must acknowledge that there is something healthy in the philosophy of faith, with its resentment
at logic as an impertinence.  Only it is very infantile.  Our final view of logic will exhibit
it (on one side of it) as faith come to years of discretion.

— Charles S. Peirce, “Minute Logic” (1902), CP 2.118

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