Category Archives: Natural Law

Continuity, Generality, Infinity, Law, Synechism : 1

Posted on November 9, 2014 by Jon Awbrey

The concept of continuity that Peirce highlights in his synechism is a logical principle that is somewhat more general than the concepts of either mathematical or physical continua. Peirce’s concept of continuity is better understood as a concept of lawful … Continue reading →

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Wherefore Aught?

Posted on June 1, 2013 by Jon Awbrey

Re: R.J. Lipton and K.W. Regan • Why Is There Something? Here is another one of those eternally recurring ideas echoed inimitably by C.S. Peirce in his sketch of a Cosmogonic Philosophy. It would suppose that in the beginning,—infinitely remote,—there was … Continue reading →

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