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Polanyi and Peirce on the Critical Method.

This essay points to parallel criticisms made by Charles Peirce and Polanyi against the "critical method"or "method of doubt." In an early set of essays (1868-1869) and in later work, Peirce claimed that the Cartesian method of doubt is both philosophically bankrupt and useless because practitioners...

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Published in:Tradition & Discovery Vol. 38; no. 3; pp. 13 - 31
Main Author: Agler, David W.
Format: Article
Published: Polanyi Society 2011/2012
Subjects:
Belief & doubt
Polanyi, Michael, 1891-1976
Critical analysis
Peirce, Charles S. (Charles Sanders), 1839-1914
Skepticism
Descartes, René, 1596-1650
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