Peirce's Epistemology e-bog

This work is an essay in Peirce's epistemology, with about an equal emphasis on the "e;epistemology"e; as on the "e;Peirce's."e; In other words our intention has not been to write exclusively a piece of Peirce scholarshiJ>- hence, the reader will find no elaborate tying in of Peirce's epistemology to other portions of his thought, no great emphasis on the chronology of his thought, etc. Peirce scholarship is a painstaking business. His mind was Labyrinthine, his terminology intricate, and his writings are, as he himself confessed, "e;a snarl of twine."e; This book rather is intended perhaps even primarily as an essay in epistemology, taking Peirce's as the focal point. The book thus addresses a general philosophical audience and bears as much on the wider issue as on the man. I hope therefore that readers will give their critical attention to the problem of knowledge and the sugges- tions we have developed around that problem and will not look here in the hope of finding an exhaustive piece of Peirce scholarship.