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DR. BUCHLER'S clear presentation of Peirce's empiricism is extremely welcome. Peirce was a fertile and original thinker of no mean order; his work is too little known in Great Britain, but Dr. Buchler's book should introduce it to English readers. The task could not have been easy. Peirce was unsystematic in his thinking and fragmentary in his writings. Nevertheless, he is worth the labour of piecing together his disjointed reflections. His contributions to symbolic logic are of permanent value, and his conception of methods of inquiry and of establishing beliefs forestall much of the work that we associate with the names of Carnap and Wittgenstein. This is a book to be recommended.
Charles Peirce's Empiricism
By Dr. Justus Buchler. (International Library of Psychology, Philosophy and Scientific Method.) Pp. xvii + 275. (London: Kegan Paul and Co., Ltd., 1939.) 12s. 6d. net.
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[Short Reviews]. Nature 145, 1010 (1940). https://doi.org/10.1038/1451010a0
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