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Term: 
Tychism
Quote: 

Permit me further to say that I object to having my metaphysical system as a whole called Tychism. For although tychism does enter into it, it only enters as subsidiary to that which is really, as I regard it, the characteristic of my doctrine, namely, that I chiefly insist upon continuity, or Thirdness, and, in order to secure to thirdness its really commanding function, I find it indispensable fully [to] recognize that it is a third, and that Firstness, or chance, and Secondness, or Brute reaction, are other elements, without the independence of which Thirdness would not have anything upon which to operate. Accordingly, I like to call my theory Synechism, because it rests on the study of continuity.

Source: 
Peirce, C. S. (1898). Cambridge Lectures on Reasoning and the Logic of Things: The Logic of Continuity. MS [R] 948.
References: 
RLT 261; CP 6.202
Date of Quote: 
1898
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