Sentences with phrase «by peirce»

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.

Thompson is right of course that synechism was put forth by Peirce as regulative, not constitutive.

The generality intended here is supplied by Peirce's concept of individual identity.

This is all the more remarkable in that it was the introduction of quanta which first caused physicists generally to take seriously the idea, so courageously defended by Peirce, of a tychistic or random aspect of the physical world.

In 1925 he was assigned the task of editing the mostly unpublished philosophical papers of Charles Sanders Peirce (donated to Harvard by Peirce's widow in 1914 at the urging of Josiah Royce).

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

Not exact matches

The overall situation in matters of abstraction is triadic (to use the term favored by C. S. Peirce).

I will use the generic term «sign» from the semiotic tradition revived by Charles Peirce at the end of the nineteenth century to stand for any object of interpretation.

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.

One striking affinity between all these philosophers, except Peirce, is the central role in their metaphysics played by the notion of «the specious present.»

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.

He was aided in this by Charles Peirce's theory of interpretation as the structure of historical existence.

-- Peirce, quoted by Hartshorne I have been preoccupied for a long time with the question, «How is our conscious experience related to our bodies?»

In this respect Peirce's agape is inseparable from eros with respect to the goal or final end to be reached by love.

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

* 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.

Now, what is important here is that the pattern of development from the finite to the infinite as Peirce defines it can be accounted for by the notion of agape.

This, I think, distinguishes them from Cartesian intuitions, which were rejected by both Bergson and Peirce.

I have tried to draw our some of the ideas in Putnam's account in «Infinitesimals as Origins of Evolution: Comments Prompted by Timothy Herron and Hilary Putnam on Peirce's Synechism and Infinitesimals,» Transactions of the Charles S. Peirce Society 34/3 (1998).

6Hartshorne does not express which citation of Peirce he had in mind, but it might be 1.362 in which Peirce describes God as manifested by the completely evolved universe in the infinitely distant future.

By these definitions lam not an idealist, nor were Peirce or White - head.

Peirce distinguished psychics from physics by attributing to the former but not the latter the admission of final causes.

Cf. Peirce who describes an interpretant of a sign as «a feeling produced by it,» thus closely linking the interpretation of a sign qua possibility (or mere potentiality) to a peculiar quality of feeling that is, to what is simply felt.

There is an obvious external comparison which could be drawn here with the evolutionary cosmology of C. S. Pence, in which the laws of nature are described as having evolved, as subject to change, and as having more the characteristic of habit.13 However, there is no evidence whatever that Whitehead knew of Peirce's views or was in any way influenced by them.14

Hartshorne sometimes explains this by reference to what Whitehead termed the fallacy of simple location (CAP 110, 187; CP 468; PS 10: 94; OP 301f), but he also illustrates the point through Charles Peirce's theory of categories (CAP 74 - 91, 103 - 113; CP 455 - 474; RNR 215 - 224).

In his early papers on cognitive faculties, Peirce held that every cognition was determined by a previous cognition.

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.

I do not intend by my remarks about space - time to imply that, if Peirce had known relativity physics, he would have given up his notion of individual identity as consisting in a continuity of reactions and accepted the idea of a definite single event as intelligible by itself.

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.

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.

«Existence, though brought about by dyadism, or opposition, as its proper determination, yet, when brought about, lies abstractly and in itself considered, within itself» (1.461, Peirce's emphasis).

Whatever Peirce meant by declaring individual identity to consist in a continuity of reactions, he did not mean that it consists in a collection of independent reactions.

That Peirce had Kant in mind when he spoke of a regulative principle is indicated by his reference to Kant in 3.612.

I am puzzled by Thompson's suggestion that Peirce can talk about definite experiences as sensations of reaction, whereas the continuity is in the reactions, not the sensations.

Peirce ends the paragraph by remarking that this «common sense idea of continuity» is not that found in «the calculus and theory of functions,» according to which continuity «is only a collection of independent points.

The idea of the tense of timelessness (or the time of tenselessness, or the time of tenselessness) was first recognized by apparently both Peirce and Frege.

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

1The papers referred to are «Questions Concerning Certain Faculties Claimed for Man» and «Some Consequences of Four Incapacities» in volume five of C. S. Peirce: Collected Papers, edited by C. Hartshorne and P. Weiss.

With them I take seriously the apparent asymmetry of becoming, time's arrow, according to which the past is (in Peirce's words) «the sum of accomplished facts,» of definite particulars, whereas the future is exclusively constituted by real Thirds, that is, not fully particularized generals, which will be somehow particularized as the future becomes past but are not particularized in advance or eternally.

After all the «yucky cross» comments by others I decided to make up my own so I winged it with 2 parts flour, 1 part caster sugar and a little water to make a runny paste then put it in a freezer bag, peirced the corner with a skewer and piped on my crosses - occassionally a little lump blocked the hole I just pinched it out and kept going - they turned out really well.

Based on the hit comic strip series by Lincoln Peirce, this family favourite jumps off the page and onto the stage.

C.S. Peirce, for example, was a mathematician and geodesist by profession, and he traveled with his reversion pendulum all over the world, in order to measure the fluctuations of the gravitational constant.

Joseph Henry of Washington, Benjamin Peirce of Cambridge, James D. Dana of New Haven, James Hall of Albany, Alexis Caswell of Providence, Stephen Alexander of Princeton, Isaac Lea of Philadelphia, F. A. P. Barnard of New York, John S. Newberry of Cleveland, B. A. Gould of Cambridge, T. Sterry Hunt of Boston, Asa Gray of Cambridge, J. Lawrence Smith of Louisville, Joseph Lovering of Cambridge, and John LeConte of Philadelphia, their associates, the officers and members of the Association known as the «American Association for the Advancement of Science,» and their successors are hereby made a corporation by the name of the «American Association for the Advancement of Science.»

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