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Quote from ‘Cambridge Lectures on Reasoning and the Logic of Things: The Logic of Continuity’

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.

Date: 
1898
References: 
RLT 261; CP 6.202
Citation: 
‘Tychism’ (pub. 09.03.13-16:43). 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-cambridge-lectures-reasoning-and-logic-things-logic-continuity-0.
Posted: 
Mar 09, 2013, 16:43 by Sami Paavola
Last revised: 
Jan 07, 2014, 00:58 by Commens Admin