Chance, Love, and Logic
International Library of Psychology
Philosophy and Scientific Method
Chance, Love, and Logic
International Library of Psychology
Philosophy and Scientific Method
GENERAL EDITOR: C. K. OGDEN, M.A.
_VOLUMES ALREADY PUBLISHED_
PHILOSOPHICAL STUDIES, _by_ G. E. MOORE, Litt.D.
THE MISUSE OF MIND, _by_ KARIN STEPHEN. _Prefatory note by Henri
Bergson_
CONFLICT AND DREAM, _by_ W. H. R. RIVERS, F.R.S.
PSYCHOLOGY AND POLITICS, _by_ W. H. R. RIVERS, F.R.S.
TRACTATUS LOGICO-PHILOSOPHICUS, _by_ L. WITTGENSTEIN. _Introduction
by Bertrand Russell_
THE MEASUREMENT OF EMOTION, _by_ W. WHATELY SMITH. _Introduction by
William Brown_
PSYCHOLOGICAL TYPES, _by_ C. G. JUNG, M.D., LL.D.
SCIENTIFIC THOUGHT, _by_ C. D. BROAD, Litt.D.
THE MEANING OF MEANING, _by_ C. K. OGDEN _and_ I. A. RICHARDS
CHARACTER AND THE UNCONSCIOUS, _by_ J. H. VAN DER HOOP
IN PREPARATION
SCIENTIFIC METHOD, _by_ A. D. RITCHIE
THE ANALYSIS OF MATTER, _by_ BERTRAND RUSSELL, F.R.S.
PSYCHOLOGY AND ETHNOLOGY, _by_ W. H. R. RIVERS, F.R.S.
INDIVIDUAL PSYCHOLOGY, _by_ ALFRED ADLER
MATHEMATICS FOR PHILOSOPHERS, _by_ G. H. HARDY, F.R.S.
THE PSYCHOLOGY OF MYTHS, _by_ G. ELLIOT SMITH, F.R.S.
THE PHILOSOPHY OF THE UNCONSCIOUS _by_ E. VON HARTMANN.
_Introduction by Prof. G. Elliot Smith_
THE THEORY OF MEDICAL DIAGNOSIS, _by_ F. G. CROOKSHANK, M.D.,
F.R.C.P.
THE ELEMENTS OF PSYCHOTHERAPY, _by_ WILLIAM BROWN, M.D., D.Sc.
EMOTION AND INSANITY, _by_ S. THALBITZER. _Introduction by Prof. H.
Höffding_
THE LAWS OF FEELING, _by_ F. PAULHAN
THE PSYCHOLOGY OF MUSIC, _by_ EDWARD J. DENT
COLOUR-HARMONY, _by_ JAMES WOOD
THE DEVELOPMENT OF CHINESE THOUGHT, _by_ LIANG CHE CHIAO
THE HISTORY OF MATERIALISM, _by_ F. A. LANGE
PSYCHE, _by_ E. ROHDE
THE PRIMITIVE MIND, _by_ P. RADIN, Ph.D.
THE PSYCHOLOGY OF PRIMITIVE PEOPLES, _by_ B. MALINOWSKI, Ph.D.,
D.Sc.
THE STATISTICAL METHOD IN ECONOMICS, _by_ P. SARGANT FLORENCE
THE PRINCIPLES OF CRITICISM, _by_ I. A. RICHARDS
THE PHILOSOPHY OF ‘AS IF’ _by_ H. VAIHINGER
CHANCE, LOVE, AND LOGIC
PHILOSOPHICAL ESSAYS
BY THE LATE
CHARLES S. PEIRCE
THE FOUNDER OF PRAGMATISM
EDITED WITH AN INTRODUCTION
BY
MORRIS R. COHEN
WITH A SUPPLEMENTARY ESSAY ON
THE PRAGMATISM OF PEIRCE
BY
JOHN DEWEY
NEW YORK
HARCOURT, BRACE & COMPANY, INC.
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1923
COPYRIGHT, 1923, BY
HARCOURT, BRACE AND COMPANY, INC.
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PREFACE
In the essays gathered together in this volume we have the most
developed and coherent available account of the philosophy of Charles S.
Peirce, whom James, Royce, Dewey, and leading thinkers in England,
France, Germany and Italy have placed in the forefront of the great
seminal minds of recent times. Besides their inherent value as the
expression of a highly original and fruitful mind, unusually well
trained and informed in the exact sciences, these essays are also
important as giving us the sources of a great deal of contemporary
American philosophy. Because of this historical importance no omissions
or changes have been made in the text beyond the correction of some
obvious slips and the recasting of a few expressions in the interest of
intelligibility.
In a subject which bristles with suggestions and difficulties the
temptation to add notes of explanation or dissent is almost insuperable.
But as such notes might easily have doubled the size of this volume I
have refrained from all comment on the text except in a few footnotes
(indicated, as usual, in brackets). The introduction is intended (and I
hope it will) help the reader to concatenate the various lines of
thought contained in these essays. I cannot pretend to have adequately
indicated their significance. Great minds like those of James and Royce
have been nourished by these writings and I am persuaded that they still
offer mines of fruitful suggestion. Prof. Dewey’s supplementary essay
indicates their value for the fundamental question of metaphysics, viz.
the nature of reality.
Grateful acknowledgment is here made to Mrs. Paul Carus and to the Open
Court Publishing Co. for permission to reprint the essays of Part II
from the _Monist_. The late Paul Carus was one of the very few who not
only gave Peirce an opportunity to publish, but publicly recognized the
importance of his writings.
I must also acknowledge my obligation to Professor Dewey for kind
permission to reprint his essay on the Pragmatism of Peirce from the
Journal of Philosophy, and to the editors of that Journal, Professors
Woodbridge and Bush, for permission to reprint some material of my own.
Part V of the Bibliography was compiled by Mr. Irving Smith.
MORRIS R. COHEN
THE COLLEGE OF THE CITY OF NEW YORK.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
INTRODUCTION vii
PROEM. THE RULES OF PHILOSOPHY 1