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Type: 
Article in Journal
Author: 
Sfendoni-Mentzou, Demetra
Title: 
Peirce on Continuity and Laws of Nature
Year: 
1997
Journal: 
Transactions of the Charles S. Peirce Society
Volume: 
33
Issue: 
3
Pages: 
646-678
Keywords: 
Synechism, Continuity, Metaphysics, Law of Nature
Abstract: 
Focuses on philosopher Charles S. Peirce's internal structure of the doctrine of Synechism and the role it plays in his account of laws of nature. Description of continuity according to Peirce; Basic ideas shared by philosophers D. Armstrong, F. Dretske and M. Tooley; Brief analysis of generality; Features of the metaphysical mode.
ISSN: 
00091774
Language: 
English