Logic is not founded upon philology - Charles Sanders Peirce

To change language does not mean to change logic Nor does logic depend upon certain psychological necessities and tendencies Logic need not be founded on a group of similar languages There is no standard form for the expression of logical conclusions
These texts are drawn from Feibleman's comprehensive  parsing of Peirce MIT 1969 Page 84 In some cases they include inferences aimed at underlining or clarifying In any case they stand alone as signs in themselves and make no pretense of interpreting or representing
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The logician need not decide if there is such a thing as reality

We cannot hide from ourselves that there are objects  very nearly like real things We are obliged to suppose that there is knowledge  embodied in some form and that there is inference and that one embodiment of knowledge affects another
I see in this parsing of Feibleman on Peirce 1969 83-84 a clear suggestion of Peircean threes and one of the remarkable instances in which  the wonder of Peirce can be apprehended The key word for me is suppose After suppose in the text comes the parenthetical ("it need not assert") a delicious reminder of the degree of supposition (vagueness, musement) involved in all thinking
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Logic is not about how we think but about how we ought to think

A computer requires no psychology to arrive at a logical conclusion Neither do we Logic is not about thinking but about what thinking presents to the mind
Drawn from Feibleman on Charles Sanders Peirce 1969 83
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Charles Sanders Peirce on the Realistic Character of Science

'The field of operations of the scientific method is the objective field of nature, and, as Peirce observed, "belief proper has nothing to do with science." The sudden recollection that the laws of science are not final formulations but are susceptible to later means of the operation of scientific method should not be taken to mean that subjectivity has been reintroduced. The established truths of science merely means "propositions to which no competent man of today demurs" until further applications of scientific method give him reason to do so.' F 48
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The widest and most cosmical hypothesis of an unlimited universe of being

'Philosophy, at least in that sense in which Peirce's philosophy was conceived and communicated, must represent the widest and most cosmical hypothesis of an unlimited universe of being, a view both devised and corrected in accordance with the requirements of logic and fact ... Of the few individuals who, in an age of emphasis on science, try to be philosophers, fewer still are able to succeed.' Wherewith Feibleman concedes that the goal is 'ultimately unattainable'. F 3. (See sidebar)   Global Online Privacy

The reputation of Charles Sanders Peirce still falls short of what it should be

'It is a measure of the size of Peirce as an influence that both James and Dewey considered themselves his students. Certainly his shadow lay across the American intellectual scene, and he still stands there, a large and powerful but lonely thinker, awaiting full recognition.' F xviii. To these can surely be added the name of Royce. 
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James K. Feibleman on the Philosophical Intent of Charles Sanders Peirce

'Peirce had a systematic philosophy which he set down unsystematically, as he said, in the form of "detached ideas". To read his scattered papers is to become more and more convinced that their sole purpose is to perfect an implicit system of philosophy. Thus what I have undertaken involves a refutation of the contention that Peirce's   various dicta cannot be rendered consistent.' Keibleman in F xxii. (See sidebar) 
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Discernment, inventiveness, originality

Discernment, inventiveness, originality, can generalize, subtle, severely critical, factual, systematic as to procedures, endowed with energy, diligence and persistence, and exclusively devoted to philosophy. Via Charles Sanders Peirce. The Complete Philosopher's Checklist F 33-34.
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