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How to Make Our Ideas Clear
| Content Provider | Semantic Scholar |
|---|---|
| Author | Peirce, Charles Sanders |
| Copyright Year | 2011 |
| Abstract | This is rather a neat bit of philosophical terminology; yet, since it is clearness that they were defining, I wish the logicians had made their definition a little more plain. Never to fail to recognize an idea, and under no circumstances to mistake another for it, let it come in how recondite a form it may, would indeed imply such prodigious force and clearness of intellect as is seldom met with in this world. On the other hand, merely to have such an acquaintance with the idea as to have become familiar with it, and to have lost all hesitancy in recognizing it in ordinary cases, hardly seems to deserve the name of clearness of apprehension, since after all it only amounts to a subjective feeling of mastery which may be entirely mistaken. I take it, however, that when the logicians speak of "clearness," they mean nothing more than such a familiarity with an idea, since they regard the quality as but a small merit, which needs to be supplemented by another, which they call distinctness. |
| File Format | PDF HTM / HTML |
| DOI | 10.7551/mitpress/4884.003.0017 |
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| Alternate Webpage(s) | https://doi.org/10.7551/mitpress%2F4884.003.0017 |
| Language | English |
| Access Restriction | Open |
| Content Type | Text |
| Resource Type | Article |
