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is a method defined by a frank discussion of the difficulties to which any opinion spontaneously gives rise which will lead to modification after modification until a tenable position is attained.

He himself calls his method dialectics, meaning that frank discussion of the difficulties to which any opinion spontaneously gives rise will lead to modification after modification until a tenable position is attained. This is a direct profession of faith in the method of inclinations. [Note to 'Fixation of Faith', 1893] (peirce 'on hegel' pdf)

is, despite what Descartes says, not something which can be feigned or created.

Peirce's insistence that contrary to Descartes' famous and influential method in the Meditations on First Philosophy, doubt cannot be feigned or created for the purpose of conducting philosophical inquiry' (wiki).

is essentially no different from the landscape it represents. The former is simply more mediated.

In Pierce's non-human-centered understanding, there is no essential difference between maps and the landscapes they represent. The former is simply more mediated. In the case of a rock that looks like it's pointing, we will decide upon a referent for ourselves. Pierce was concerned not with the sign system, but with the interpretant (with the sign as understood by someone). (I don't know if this is my own or if it comes from Holquist 'Dialogism' around page 50)

Mathematics is the science of quantity. (Charles Sanders Peirce)

is not to be sought in single signs or in isolation from a whole system of signs, from the rules governing the uses of signs, and from those habits of behavior and kinds of conduct that are also constituent parts of a system of signs.

For Peirce, meaning is not to be sought in single signs or in isolation from a whole system of signs, from the rules governing the uses of signs, and from those habits of behavior and kinds of conduct that are also constituent parts of a system of signs.'

is the entire intended general interpretant of a given term, proposition, or argument.

Peirce defines meaning as the 'entire intended general interpretant' of a given term, proposition, or argument (110-111 [5.179]).

is unavoidability of an accident in any complex technology such as nuclear power.

Perrow's study on 'Normal Accidents' (1984). He concluded after examining a huge range of techniques and accidents that in complex technologies, such as nuclear power, accidents are unpreventable, and because of their catastrophic character it would be irresponsible to introduce such technologies.' (Zinn 2008 :11)

is a method of ascertaining the meanings of hard words and of abstract concepts.

Peirce defines pragmatism as a 'method of ascertaining the meanings of hard words and of abstract concepts.'

is concerned with the establishment of habit not in the individual (a la William James), but across persons and communities.

For Peirce, the establishment of habit across persons and communities is what is interesting about 'practical upshots,' not individual action and reaction. The contrast between James' individualist approach and Peirce's communalism is interesting.

is something capable of being completely embodied... how something may or might have been.

A quality is something capable of being completely embodied. A law never can be embodied in its character as a law except by determining a habit. A quality is how something may or might have been. A law is how an endless future must continue to be. Charles Sanders Peirce

 does not consist so much in knowing, nor even in 'organized knowledge,' as it consists in diligent inquiry into truth for truth's sake, without any sort of axe to grind, nor for the sake of the delight of contemplating it, but from an impulse to penetrate into the reason of things.

science does not consist so much in knowing, nor even in 'organized knowledge,' as it does in diligent inquiry into truth for truth's sake, without any sort of axe to grind, nor for the sake of the delight of contemplating it, but from an impulse to penetrate into the reason of things'

is a body of propositions which must unceasingly and actively be tested. At no moment should a system be looked at, as peirce put it, with a 'vacant eye'.

System means in Peirces philosophy a body of propositions which must unceasingly and actively be tested. At no moment should a system be looked at, as Peirces put it, with a 'vacant eye' (mora 1955 : 357)

is the aligning of a statement with some ideal limit. An essential ingredient in truth is the confession of its impossibility.

Peirce defines truth as follows: 'Truth is that concordance of an abstract statement with the ideal limit towards which endless investigation would tend to bring scientific belief, which concordance the abstract statement may possess by virtue of the confession of its inaccuracy and one-sidedness, and this confession is an essential ingredient of truth.'

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