Tenacity, Authority, Plausibility, Inquiry

[Jon Awbrey]

Tenacity, Authority, Plausibility, Inquiry
• https://inquiryintoinquiry.com/2025/02/14/tenacity-authority-plausibility-inquiry-a/

Re: Peter Cameron • Mathematics and Logic
• https://cameroncounts.wordpress.com/2010/01/03/mathematics-and-logic/

My favorite polymathematician, Charles Sanders Peirce, gave a fourfold
classification of what he called “methods of fixing belief”, or “settling
opinion”, most notably and seminally in his paper, “The Fixation of Belief”
(1877). Adjusting his nomenclature very slightly, if only for the sake
of preserving a mnemonic rhyme scheme, we may refer to his four types as
Tenacity, Authority, Plausibility (à priori pleasing praiseworthiness),
and full‑fledged Scientific Inquiry.

Reference —
• https://www.cspeirce.com/menu/library/bycsp/fixation/fx-frame.htm

Regards,

Jon

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