C. I. Lewis in Focus: The Pulse of Pragmatism

Index

Index a priori, the: and the analytic, 30–31, 34–35, 39; and experience, 53–54, 62–64, 151–52; in knowledge, 23; Lewis’s understanding of, 2–4, 26, 45; pragmatic, 12, 56–68; synthetic, 37–39 action, rightness of, 148–57 actuality as category, 108, 109 alternative logics, 2, 30 analytic-synthetic distinction, 23, 26, 54, 57–58, 64–68 analyticity, 28, 30–32, 39, 42–45, 66 anticipation, 44–45 anti-foundationalist turn, 124 apprehension: immediate, 78–79, 81; of value qualities, 144–45 assertions, types of, 130–35 attitude, types of, 142 behavior, human: imperatives rooted in, 168; and meaning, 39–40, 42–45, 47, 67–68; as rule-guided, 149–66 beliefs: Davidson on, 126–28; empirical, 91–93; justi¤ed, 149 Bentham, Jeremy, 137–40 categories: as tools for analysis, 110; types of, 97–101 certitude: of apprehension, 78–80; empirical , 69–96; rational, 25–69; of veri-¤cation, 86 cognition, 72, 125 community, individual in, 162–69 concepts: applicability of, 86–87; as categories , 97–98; vs. events, 116–17; and worldly properties, 68 “con¤rmation holism,” 65 congruence, 92–93 consistency, principle of, 46–48, 152– 53, 168 containment, problem of, 37, 43, 60–62, 66 continental philosophy, 63 Copernican Revolution, 52 Critique of Pure Reason (Kant), 7–8 data: from experience, 91–92; pre-vs. post-analytic, 75; recognition of, 80 Davidson, Donald, 126–28 de¤nitions, real, 34–36 Derrida, Jacques, 123 Dewey, John: on esthetics, 141–42; and the given, 76; on interacting continuities , 110; and Lewis, 5; and logic, 58–60; and logical positivism , 20 difference, play of, 124 disposition: as rule of generation, 87; as a rule of organization, 40–44, 60–64, 87; and theory of meaning, 101– 106, 118 duration, time as, 108 Einstein’s theory of relativity, 52–54 Empimenides the Cretan, 152 empirical statements, levels of, 81–82 empiricism, 69–96 “epistemic present,” the, 87–88 epistemology and metaphysics, 97–98, 106–17 “Epithet, Fallacy of the,” 135–36 esthetics, 141–47 ethics: as basis of knowledge, 150–66; Lewis on, 4, 19, 23; social, 140–41, 148–69; value and, 135, 140–41 excluded middle, law of, 109 experience: a priori as structuring, 53– 54, 57–60, 62–64, 151–52; cognitive , 91–92; concepts and, 46–52; esthetic, 144–47; as experimental, 45, 168–69; given element in, 69– 80; imperatives and, 168–69; interpretive structures and, 116–17; and knowledge, 2–3, 17; meaning rooted in, 101–106; metaphysics rooted in, 122–25; of objects, 72– 75, 143–44; and reality, 98; resisting element in, 127–28; texture of, 108; value of, 133–34, 138–39, 143; world as synthesis of, 113–14 experimentalism, pragmatic, 45–56, 168–69 fact, as not independent of knowledge, 112–13 falliblism, 54–55, 65–66 First Principles (Spencer), 8 Firstness, 77, 107, 110 freedom, 162–69 generalization, empirical, 49–52, 54–55, 57, 66 given, the, 2–3, 17, 48, 69–81 good, the, 3–4, 23; and action, 148–51; social, 162–69; in valuation, 130– 32, 137–39 Heidegger, Martin, 63, 64, 173n68 Hume, David: on empirical knowledge, 89–90; on “ought/is,” 149; and skepticism, 93 idealism: attacks on, 15; and knowledge, 104–105; objective, 11–12; vs. realism in Lewis’s thought, 117–19, 127–28 image, 41–42 imperatives: and goods, 3–4, 167–68; categorical, 152–61; hypothetical, 153–54; and the social, 161–69 implication: material, 18, 26–29; strict, 2, 19, 82–83, 131 individual, the, in society, 162–69 induction, rule of, 90, 94 inference, ordinary, 47 interpretation: conceptual, 83–84, 104; levels of, 80; problem of, 71–73 interpretative structures: and experience, 116–17; interrelationships of, 56 James, William: and a priori, 61–62; and belief, 149; on feeling, 77; and Lewis, 5, 9, 10; and logical positivism , 20; on truth, 55–56 judgments: of empirical matters, 160; in probability, 91; terminating vs. nonterminating , 81–87; truth of, 88– 90; in valuation, 131, 143–45 justice, as imperative, 4, 152–56, 158, 161–62, 168 justi¤cation: and belief, 149–50; pragmatic , 92–96; types of, 123–24; vs. veri¤cation, 80–92 Kant, Immanuel: and categorical principles , 94, 160; and ethics, 22–23; Lewis’s appropriation of, 7–8, 10, 12, 14–15; synthetic a priori of, 36–39 knowledge: a priori in, 23, 57–68, 151– 52; action as goal of, 148–49; by acquaintance, 75; vs. apprehension, 81; empirical, 59...