November 8th to 11th, 2004

Rodrigo Barbosa Lopes
amitiphi@yahoo.com.br
Unesp - Marília - Brazil

LOGICAL ARCHITECTURE OF CATHEGORIES, PEIRCEAN CONCEPTION OF REALITY AND OBJECTIVE LOGIC

ABSTRACT
We aim to clarify the main aspect that logic corresponds to in the metaphysical thought, i.e., understand why metaphysics for its inquiry nature - as the science which look into the underpinning reality of appearances graph - cannot do without logic as special science which will lead phenomenological register of categories to reality forms of being. By bearing in mind logic as conductor of formal rules of right reasoning and after admitted it into metaphysics, logic has therefore amplified its domain beyond formal aspect of knowledge, namely, its ontological nature; in addition, justifying that metaphysics is only possible when grounded onto logic as science and not in random principles and absent of any consistency with the very same observed reality. We do recognize thus within the logical architecture of categories the theoretical effort of Charles Sanders Peirce, relating to a logical formulation and conceptualization of some conception of reality, an hypothetical and abductive formulation and, as such, fallible to inquiry how a logic of events would occur onto the reality sphere; taking for granted as rational attitude, that reality has its proper logical process with which our thinking could achieve some likeness from cognitive base.

KEYWORDS: Phenomenology, Categories of Experience, Logic, Metaphysic, Realism, Objective Idealism, Reality, Continuum.

Center for Pragmatism Studies
Philosophy Graduate Program
Departament of Philosophy
Pontifical Catholic University of São Paulo - Brazil