Peirce, Charles S. (1903). Lecture VII [R]. MS [R] 474

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Type:

Manuscript

Author:

Peirce, Charles Sanders

Title:

Lecture VII [R]

Manuscript Id:

MS [R] 474

Year:

1903

Abstract / Description:

Robin Catalogue:
A. MS., notebook, n.p., 1903, pp. 96-152.
Volume II of the Seventh Lecture. Law, uniformity, and variety. Critical comments on Mill’s views on the uniformity of nature. For CSP it is obvious that nature is not uniform, but that variety is nature’s leading characteristic. His realism is opposed to Mill’s nominalism. The problem of induction, with solutions by Abbe Gratry, Laplace, and CSP.

Keywords:

Uniformity of Nature, John Stuart Mill, Law, Nominalism, Scholastic Realism, Variety, Induction, Pooh-pooh Argument, Joseph Gratry, Pierre Simon Laplace, Number

Language:

English