El sinequismo, el realismo y el empirismo de Charles S. Peirce, aplicados a sus teorías de la percepción y del conocimiento.

Abstract

This paper tracks down the importance of three principles of the philosophy by Charles S. Peirce, applied to the particular case of perception and cognition. These principles are: sinechism, or the principle of continuity; realism, in both ontological and epistemological sense; and empiricism, in a new formulation opposed to the traditional empiricism. As a result, I shall argue for three claims (i) Peirce defends a continuity between sensation and reason, that avoids Cartesian dualism (sinechism); (ii) he accepts the independence of the object and the subject without being a naïve realist (scholastic Peircean realism); and (iii) he admits subjective elements both in perception and in reasoning without falling into idealism (Peircean radical empiricism).

Keywords

Charles S. Peirce

cognition

empiricism

perception

realism

sinechism

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