Sentences with phrase «peirce says»

«The people we serve are like Ouida's children,» Peirce says.

«She's a person who stays after an event and cleans up, even if it's two or three in the morning,» Peirce says.

«It was always fascinating to get somebody else's take on [my work],» Peirce says, «and then turn around and give that kind of advice to somebody else.»

And Peirce says flatly, «It is the past which is actual.»

About these societies I, with Whitehead and the Buddhists, would accept much of what Peirce says about individuals.

Peirce himself says that a person is an idea.

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.

Peirce says that just analyzing concepts can give us knowledge, and I'm as much a Peircean as a Whiteheadian.

Peirce says that metaphysics is not factual: it is an analysis of concepts.

CH: Well, I only discovered recently what Peirce says.

Peirce says that it must annul itself as nothing, because otherwise it would be idle, «do - nothing potentiality» (6.219).

If, as Peirce says, agapasm is the proposition that the law of love is operative, this law could not be a regularity of any specific determinateness (6.302).

This is why Peirce says that agapastic evolution consists in a bestowal by parents on offspring of spontaneous energy.

All real questions, as Peirce said, are questions of degree, on this view» (Letter of July 19, 1935).

Right away on receiving the information about natural selection as factor in the becoming of animal species Peirce said to Chauncey Wright that he'd have to give up his determinism; animal habits are not absolute regularities.

Charles Peirce said this in his twenties with superb clarity, except that finitude is in this usage an inadequate word; we are but fragments of the finite cosmos, which so far as we know is itself finite.

Well did Peirce say, «Plato knew what philosophy is.»

But then, as Peirce said, the only thing that does not need an explanation is pure chaos; order is most of all in need of explanation, and the explanation of a state of affairs in terms of first principles is not as penetrating as the explanation of the first principles themselves.

Peirce himself said, «Logic is not yet ready to deal with the relation of truth to time.»

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A distinguished English mathematician, Sylvester, said of Charles Peirce, that he was a «much greater» mathematician than his father, Benjamin.14 The word «great» has not been used of Whitehead as mathematician, though his pupil Bertrand Russell said of him that as teacher of that sub1ect he was «perfect.»

I agree but add: God had no alternative to willing that there be some free creatures, first because (pace Alston) the idea of not creating at all could occur (if I may say so) only to a confused creature, second because, as Peirce, Bergson, and Whitehead have seen, by a «creature» we can consistently mean only a lesser form of the freedom or creativity which in eminent form is deity.

«44 This statement exhibits an mischaracterization of Bergson so extreme it defies words; if ever there was a more persistent opponent of Descartes» conception of natural science than Bergson, I do not know who it might be — with the possible exception of Bergson's process blood brothers — Peirce, Dewey, James, Whitehead and Hartshorne.45 In Lowe's defense it might be said that the eight or ten books that do the most to establish just how non-Cartesian, and indeed revolutionary Bergson's view of science was were all published after Understanding Whitehead.

For Bergson, like many process thinkers (Peirce, James and Dewey come particularly to mind), the entire concept of «necessity» only makes sense when applied internally to abstractions the intellect has already devised.11 Of course, one can tell an evolutionary story about how the human intellect came to be a separable function of consciousness that emphasizes abstraction (indeed, that is what Bergson does in Creative Evolution), but if one were to say that the course of development described in that story had to occur (i.e., necessarily) as it did, then one would be very far from Bergson's view (CE 218, 236, 270).

That it is pure potentiality is argued by Peirce when he indicates the grounds for saying that it can not remain inactive.

However, Peirce also says that it is the disposition of the offspring to catch the general idea [the lawful process] of those about it and thus to subserve the general purpose (6.303).

Much of what Peirce has to say throughout his published papers is pertinent to a philosophical perspective on the problems of creativity.

To say that there is spontaneity in the world, then, is to say that ordered generality, or what for Peirce is intelligibility, is founded on the unique, or what resists intelligibility.

In saying that agape is circular, Peirce reminds us that agape introduces direction into the universe.

Hartshorne says that he never intended to become a Peirce scholar.

Peirce even says that we merely «gabble» when we attribute knowledge to God.

I think that's a marvelous sentence, and only Peirce could have said it.

Where there is knowledge there's also faith, and Peirce also says in a number of places that extreme pessimism is wrong in principle.

So was Peirce, who said so, and Whitehead, who did not say so but who did affirm what he called «reformed subjectivism.»

Whitehead is as «post-evolutionary» in his thought as were the pragmatists, for example, in theirs.18 That is to say, Whitehead, James, Peirce, and Dewey all presuppose some concept of evolutionary development in their philosophies; indeed, their respective styles of philosophizing would have been inconceivable apart from the prior development of evolutionist theories.

Peirce himself somewhere says that an individual is determinate, conforming to the law of excluded middle as to predicates; but he also says, and by his tychism must say, that according to this definition there are no individuals, strictly speaking.

As Thompson says, Peirce had an argument favoring his synechism: since all things swim in continua, measurement is inevitably inexact, more or less indefinite or approximate, so that absolute determinism could never be observationally confirmed.

It is not enough with Peirce's epistemology to say merely that «an individual is something which reacts.»

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«Boys Don't Cry» director Kimberly Peirce, who has long been active with the academy and the directors» guild, said there have been concerted efforts within both organizations to open doors to more women.

But I certainly don't bring the same expectations, let alone the same hopes, to the DC / Marvels — some of them anything but marvels — than I do to, say, a new Alfonso Cuaron or Kimberly Peirce of Brit Marling film... nor to anything in which Julianne Moore, whose taste in and savvy about projects match her talent, is involved in any way, shape or form.

«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.

The agency, which has installed and will install rooftop PV systems on several of its facilities, said it is also considering the feasibility of floating solar panels deployment at Tengeh and Upper Peirce Reservoirs.

«They deceptively lured thousands of individuals into purchasing memberships into the Miley Cyrus fan club, and that's why we're suing,» said Robert Peirce of Pittsburgh, one of the two lawyers who brought the suit, in a statement.

«We look at this as that other counties and thousands of children, born and yet to be born, are looking at us to lead the way, to do a good job, to prove that this really works, that it's worth the investment of taxpayer dollars in the long run to have high quality early learning opportunities for all children, especially those from low - income families,» says John Peirce, a consultant to the United Way of Allen County for Early Childhood Initiatives.

Even when emotions are running high, Spencer has a knack for getting people to open their minds, says Claudia Peirce, assistant director of development for UCP.

America's shortage of low - income housing may finally receive serious attention, said industry analyst Neal Peirce in a recent Washington Post article.