The Commens Dictionary

Quote from ‘Reply to the Necessitarians: Rejoinder to Dr. Carus’

Quote: 

So that the social theory of reality, far from being incompatible with tychism, inevitably leads up to that form of philosophy. Socialistic, or as I prefer to term it, agapastic ontology seems to me likely to find favour with many minds at an early day, because it is a natural path by which the nominalist may be led into the realistic ways of thought, ways toward which many facts and inward forces impel him. [—] Thus it is that the agapastic ontologist who endeavours to escape tychism will find himself “led into” that “inextricable confusion” which Dr. Carus has taken a contract to show that I am led into.

Date: 
1893
References: 
CP 6.610
Citation: 
‘Agapasm’ (pub. 03.01.13-19:12). Quote in M. Bergman & S. Paavola (Eds.), The Commens Dictionary: Peirce's Terms in His Own Words. New Edition. Retrieved from http://www.commens.org/dictionary/entry/quote-reply-necessitarians-rejoinder-dr-carus-0.
Posted: 
Jan 03, 2013, 19:12 by Sami Paavola
Last revised: 
Oct 22, 2015, 14:28 by Mats Bergman