Stephen Hawking has declared that philosophy is dead. In this, Hawking is dead wrong. Our present culture now willfully ignores philosophy, but it's importance has never been greater.
What is logic, and why should anyone be interested in it? I suppose those ought to be our initial questions. This being the opening article in this new and somewhat experimental series, I will tackle the second question here and the first one in Part II.
Charles Sanders Peirce, easily the greatest philosopher the U.S. will produce (since at the rate things are going there the U.S. won’t be producing any more great philosophers), began one of his most important essays, “The Fixation of Belief,” with the following:
“Few persons care to study logic, because everybody conceives himself to be proficient enough in the art of reasoning already. But I observe that this satisfaction is limited to one’s own ratiocination, and does not extend to that of other men.”
“Few persons care to study logic, because everybody conceives himself to be proficient enough in the art of reasoning already. But I observe that this satisfaction is limited to one’s own ratiocination, and does not extend to that of other men.”
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