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Charles S. Peirce’s conception of inquiry is both a challenging and an easy topic to analyze from an educational perspective. During his long life Peirce developed various conceptions concerning signs, reasoning, logic, and inquiry. Peirce’s philosophy and semiotic system provide a multitude of overlapping illustrations for processes of inquiry. He wrote surprisingly little explicitly on education. He had, however, famous dictums on learning and inquiry, emphasizing their importance for the epistemology. According to his “first rule of reason”:
Upon this first, and in one sense this sole, rule of reason, that in order to learn you must desire to learn and in so desiring not be satisfied with what you already incline to think, there follows one corollary which itself deserves to be inscribed upon every wall of the city of philosophy, Do not block the way of inquiry. (EP 2:48, 1898)
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Paavola, S., Hakkarainen, K. (2018). Community of Inquiry and Inquiry-Based Learning. In: Peters, M. (eds) Encyclopedia of Educational Philosophy and Theory. Springer, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-287-532-7_572-1
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