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WT Sharpe · 01-02-2011, 08:22 AM

.....We thus see, however, that all the progress we have made in philosophy, that is, all that has been made since the Greeks, is the result of that methodical skepticism which is the first element of human freedom.
..........— Charles S(anders) Peirce (1839-1914), American philosopher; author of Pragmatism. Values in a Universe of Chance: Selected Writings of Charles S. Peirce edited by Philip P. Wiener, 1st edition (Garden City, NY: Doubleday, 1958). From the section entitled "Extracts from an Oration Delivered at the Reunion of the Cambridge High School Association Thursday Evening, November 12, 1863", page 8 (Wiener's source is the Cambridge Chronicle, a Weekly, Sat., Nov. 21, 1863, Vol. XVIII, No. 47, p. 1).

01-02-2011, 08:22 AM	#1037
WT Sharpe Bah, humbug! Posts: 39,072 Karma: 157049943 Join Date: Jun 2009 Location: Chesapeake, VA, USA Device: Kindle Oasis, iPad Pro, & a Samsung Galaxy S9.	.....We thus see, however, that all the progress we have made in philosophy, that is, all that has been made since the Greeks, is the result of that methodical skepticism which is the first element of human freedom. ..........— Charles S(anders) Peirce (1839-1914), American philosopher; author of Pragmatism. *Values in a Universe of Chance: Selected Writings of Charles S. Peirce* edited by Philip P. Wiener, 1st edition (Garden City, NY: Doubleday, 1958). From the section entitled "Extracts from an Oration Delivered at the Reunion of the Cambridge High School Association Thursday Evening, November 12, 1863", page 8 (Wiener's source is the Cambridge Chronicle, a Weekly, Sat., Nov. 21, 1863, Vol. XVIII, No. 47, p. 1).