Sentences with phrase «peirce seem»

Hartshorne's criticisms of Peirce seem to me to assume that the second alternative is the philosophically sound one.

Peirce seems to believe this, too, since he views agape as spreading among the creatures who participate in creative evolution, and he speaks of the genius as one who acts agapastically as an individual rather than as a community.

The subtle point Peirce seems to be urging here is the difference between experiencing individuality (existence, actuality) and conceptualizing that experience.

Peirce seems to have had considerations like the above in mind when, after defining an individual as something which reacts, he went on to proclaim that «everything whose identity consists in a continuity of reactions will be a single logical individual» (3.613).

Not exact matches

From Peirce's claim that we can make our ideas clear by considering their conceivable practical effects, to James's notion of truth's cash value in experiential terms, to Dewey's own view of the practical character of reality, the message seems to be that philosophy has more to offer than a therapeutic stance toward social issues and a rhetorical presentation of new suggestions.

To the extent that this characterization of evolution is emphasized, Peirce does seem to leave room for the possibility of discord.

It seems to me that both Bergson and Peirce had the insight that the cosmos, including human languages, does involve evolution from past to future that expands reality.

Peirce's account of continuity in terms of a theory of infinitesimals seems to me to reinforce this affinity.

I do not know whether he would have done this or not, since I believe that with his pragmatism he might have accommodated relativity physics without altering his epistemology, though I can not go into the question here.16 What seems to me clear is that the philosophical issues underlying Hartshorne's criticisms of Peirce can not be settled by theories of physics or the mathematics of continuity.

From these remarks, it would seem that fallibilism is the regulative principle that no hypothesis should be regarded as absolutely determinate and certain, while the doctrine of continuity, or «synechism,» as Peirce usually called it, is the corresponding constitutive principle that the things constituting reality are never absolutely determinate and discrete.

Thompson's discussion seems to limit «reaction» to transactions with simultaneous or contemporary entities; but Peirce as I read him allows memory (as in surprise) to instantiate secondness or reaction.

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.

While this definition, Peirce adds, «seems to be correct... it must not be confounded (as Kant himself confounded it) with infinite divisibility.»

There seems to be a succession of experiences, but (if the succession is a continuum) there are no single experiences» (M, 286); (2) that Peirce «fell into a subtle but complete mistake» when he held that since «continuity leaves open possibilities which discontinuity excludes... the burden of proof is upon discontinuity» (MR, 467 - 68); (3) that «he could not, in the continuum of becoming which he posited, give meaning to the idea of a definite single event» (M, 287).

It seems to me that the Bergsonian position is radically vulnerable to several interrelated criticisms that have their origin in the work of C. S. Peirce and which have become almost contemporary commonplaces.

Though the film is less racy than De Palma's somewhat voyeuristic version, Peirce relies on a «womanhood» motif that seems quite unsavory given the visceral nature of Carrie's messy birth and her introduction into puberty: blood and cracks.

It seems as if CARRIE remake director, Kimberly Peirce, is finding a niche for herself.

Director Kimberley Peirce wants her remake of Carrie to mean something, but she can't seem to figure out what.

Unfortunately, every director in the industry seems intent on making a protest film, and while Kimberly Peirce's «Stop - Loss» is arguably more pro-soldier than anti-war, her message is overshadowed by a contradictory (and ultimately more government - friendly) ending.

I don't believe he was referring to «authority» in the sense of expertise; in some sense the role of the IPCC in fixing belief around climate science is similar to Peirce's «authority», but it has no enforcement power and to me it seems far more like a step in the process of fixation and communication of scientific information, part of the publishing process, than anything like what Peirce was talking about in method 2.