Peirce on Signs by James Hoopes

Author:James Hoopes
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: The University of North Carolina Press
Published: 1991-07-14T16:00:00+00:00

Notes

1. Died 1308.

2. The entia non sunt multiplicanda prœter necessitatem [“entities are not to be multiplied beyond necessity”] is the argument of Durand de St. Pourçain. But any given piece of popular information about scholasticism may be safely assumed to be wrong.

3. The sole difference between Ockam and Hobbes is that the former admits the universal signs in the mind to be natural, while the latter thinks they only follow instituted language. The consequence of this difference is that, while Ockam regards all truth as depending on the mind’s naturally imposing the same sign on two things, Hobbes will have it that the first truths were established by convention. But both would doubtles allow that there is something in re to which such truths corresponded. But the sense of Berkeley’s implication would be that there are no universal thought-signs at all. Whence it would follow that there is no truth and no judgments but propositions spoken or on paper.

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