This thinker mused that because "the public prefer the cheap and nasty," he should return to the "easily intelligible" in his next essay, which ended up being "The Doctrine of Chance."
This thinker mused that because "the public prefer the cheap and nasty," he should return to the "easily intelligible" in his next essay, which ended up being "The Doctrine of Chance." He illustrated the concepts of doubt and belief by asking whether one should pay for a horse-car with a nickel or with five coppers. Another essay by this author contains a figure depicting a "parallelogram of forces." He defined firstness, secondness, and thirdness, as respectively ideas, brute facts, and habits, in a paper to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences called "On a New List of Categories." He defined four ways to settle opinion in "The Fixation of Belief," which like his other papers was published in Popular Science Monthly. For 10 points, name this philosopher who wrote a pragmatist manifesto titled "How to Make Our Ideas Clear."
This thinker mused that because "the public prefer the cheap and nasty," he should return to the "easily intelligible" in his next essay, which ended up being "The Doctrine of Chance."
Charles Sanders Peirce