What Veblen owed to Peirce - the social theory of logic. (economist Thorstein Veblen, logician Charles S. Peirce)

Journal of Economic Issues | September 1, 1998| | Copyright

In fall 1881, Thorstein Veblen studied with Charles S. Peirce, a logician with whose philosophy he is thought to have shared much. The graduate seminar, "Elementary Logic," was actually a favorite offering of Peirce. Veblen found himself attending the very small seminar along with John Dewey. According to the research of Max H. Fisch, however, Dewey found the mathematical presentations too technical for his taste, saw no benefit for himself from it, and withdrew from the seminar early in the term [Fisch 1986, 309-310]. Nevertheless, Dewey's writings on the origin and changing ...

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