Sentences with phrase «find peirce»
Murray Murphey finds Peirce's declaration that individual identity consists in a continuity of reactions to be inconsistent with «either the definition of reaction or of continuity — there can not be a continuum of instantaneous events.
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Does not Peirce's argument for the improbability of an exact zero of a property found in highly variable degrees, and in highly variable extents of space, hold against the exact truth of Euclidian geometry?
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.
The inconsistencies Murphey finds in Peirce's attempt to define individual identity are unavoidable if one begins with the assumption that the identity of an individual consists in a collection of independent reactions.
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.
It seems as if CARRIE remake director, Kimberly Peirce, is finding a niche for herself.