JA:http://web.archive.org/web/20140630220000/http://permalink.gmane.org/gmane.science.philosophy.peirce/13446
SR:http://web.archive.org/web/20140701002000/http://permalink.gmane.org/gmane.science.philosophy.peirce/13447
JA:http://web.archive.org/web/20140701003000/http://permalink.gmane.org/gmane.science.philosophy.peirce/13448
SR:http://web.archive.org/web/20140701024001/http://permalink.gmane.org/gmane.science.philosophy.peirce/13449
PC:http://web.archive.org/web/20140701031800/http://permalink.gmane.org/gmane.science.philosophy.peirce/13450
Phyllis Chiasson wrote:
>
> I have always thought Peirce considered "surprise" as the beginning of doubt,
> and doubt the thing that must be settled to have enough belief to act.
> 1st, 2nd, 3rd.
Stephen, Phyllis, List,
I do not think Peirce is being dogmatic so much as simply making a definition. He wraps a boundary
about a class of processes that he finds worthy of interest for all sorts of reasons and he affixes
the word "inquiry" to that class. He knows the name is not always so apt but what's in a name is
the object class and not the name for its own sake.
| The irritation of doubt causes a struggle to attain a state of belief.
| I shall term this struggle ''inquiry'', though it must be admitted
| that this is sometimes not a very apt designation.
|
| http://www.peirce.org/writings/p107.html
If we peer through the cloud of words surrounding the class of phenomena thus labeled, we find many
features in common. There is a tension among two or more alternatives. Hence the words ambiguity,
doubt, double take, dubiety, duplicity, equivocality, perplexity, and so on. The alternatives may
come in different flavors, intensities, or modes, and they may arise from different sources. Hence
the words anomaly, novelty, and surprise that reflect a tension between what we expect or what is
familiar and what we observe in actuality. All these words point in their own nuanced ways to
roughly the same sort of affective-cognitive situation.
Once the general idea of inquiry is settled enough to inquire further, there are any number of
questions we might ask next.
I have a few in mind ...
Jon
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