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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