April 30, 1998
Peirce Quote of the Day
No general description of the mode of advance of human knowledge can be
just which leaves out of account the social aspect of knowledge. That
is of its very essence. What a thing society is! The workingman, with
his trade union, knows that. Men and women moving in polite society
understand it, still better. But Bohemians, like me, whose work is done
in solitude, are apt to forget that not only is a man as a whole little
better than a brute in solitude, but also that everything that bears any
important meaning to him must receive its interpretation from social
considerations.
-- C.S.Peirce MS 1573.273 (undated)
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Joseph Ransdell <ransdell who-is-at door.net> or <bnjmr@ttu.edu>
Department of Philosophy, Texas Tech University, Lubbock TX 79409
Area Code 806: 742-3158 office 797-2592 home 742-0730 fax
ARISBE: Peirce Telecommunity website - http://www.door.net/arisbe
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