Liberal Arts Press; 1957; Paperback; Very Good; Additional Details ------------------------------ Product description: What he [the reader] will find is a series of philosophical reflections on such concepts as inquiry, reality, meaning, probability, induction, chance, law, and so on. Pierce concentrated his attention on concepts which he took to be fundamental to a philosophical understanding of scientific method and its results; and what he actually gives is not a "description" of the method of scientific investigation, but philosophical analyses of key concepts that would have to be use is a systematic description of it. Pierce regarded most of these writings as contributions to logic, which he conceived as the study of reasoning. Reasoning, which Pierce calls "thought" and "inquiry," is the art of drawing inferences. Its aim is to find out, from consideration of what we already know (premises), something else we do not know (conclusions). Reasoning of inquiry is thus a knowledge-seeking activity. --- excerpt from Introduction