Sentences with phrase «although peirce»

Hartshorne objects (1) that although Peirce «had an ontology of relations in the idea of relative actualities, he lacked any definite terms or subjects for the relations.

Although Peirce's use of the regulative / constitutive distinction may provide a reason for his belief that the burden of proof is with discontinuity, I think there is more than a use of this distinction underlying Hartshorne's charge that with the belief Peirce fell into a subtle but complete mistake.

Although Peirce does insist that there is divergence from law and increasing variety in the world, and that at no time in the finite future will there be no aberrancy from law (6.91), he also insists that growth is continually expanding into law and that if we were to reach a point in the infinitely distant future, we would have reached a state of no indeterminacy or chance but a complete reign of law (6.33).

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* There is now a superb biography of Charles S. Peirce, with an excellent concluding essay on his thought by the historian, who is also a capable philosopher, Professor Joseph Brent, who has become a close friend, although I had not heard of him until a year or so ago.

I should emphasize at the outset that although I begin with Peirce and shall refer to what I understand to be his view, the discussion will not be restricted to a straightforward exposition.

Bergson's tensions also underlie an opposition between life and matter, creative and conservative impulses, and an open society and a closed society For Peirce the first is mind, which is lively, and matter, which is sheer (although evolutionary) regularity, and is called «effete mind.»

Peirce's synechism or insistence that continuity is of prime importance in philosophy and his effort to show that continuity fundamentally has no gaps (although continuity is nevertheless open to spontaneous, emergent developments) exhibit a fundamental affinity with Bergson.

So, although for practical purposes our lack of intuitive certainties is much as Peirce says, theoretically we can say what we mean by definite relations and definite terms, and this seems an advantage.

He had already been influenced by William Ernest Hocking and Charles Peirce, although these men's thoughts were also filtered through Hartshorne's own special interests and insights.19

Although he had studied in Germany with Husserl, his own commitments were much more informed by the community of American thinkers mentioned above, and especially by Peirce.

Although we've seen several TV spots promoting Kimberly Peirce's remake of CARRIE, this is the first promotional clip released from the film, set to...

«Although women are experiencing success in the workplace and there is a sense that the women's empowerment movement should be over, one in four women report being violently assaulted by their husband or boyfriend,» said Annie Peirce, an executive board member of GEI.