Re: What Peirce Preserves

Re: Peirce Preservation ("Studies in Logic" and Its Vicissitudes)
At: http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.science.philosophy.peirce/8116

Irving & All,

The question of how logic, mathematics, phenomenology, and philosophy
in general relate to one another has come up again several times in
recent discussions, so let me refer once again to a statement from
Peirce that I always find enlightening on that score, at least,
with respect to how Peirce himself viewed their dependencies
and their relative standings as foundations.

| Normative science rests largely on phenomenology and on mathematics;
| Metaphysics on phenomenology and on normative science.
|
| C.S. Peirce, CP 1.186 (1903)

Here is a digram of these relations, with the more basic inquiries
at the bottom and those that rest on them higher up in the ordering.

|
|
|                          o Metaphysics
|                         /|
|                        / |
|                       /  |
|    Normative Science o   |
|                     / \  |
|                    /   \ |
|                   /     \|
|      Mathematics o       o Phenomenology
|

Cf. http://stderr.org/pipermail/inquiry/2004-March/001262.html

Regards,

Jon

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