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                                             July   26, 2010
                                             August 29, 2010

Charles S. Peirce, from
"The Architecture of Theories"


   On "the mathematical conception of continuity":

   "Most of what is true in Hegel is a darkling glimmer
   of a conception which the mathematicians had long
   before made pretty clear, and which recent
   researches have still further illustrated."



   "A philosophy which emphasizes the idea of the One,
   is generally a dualistic philosophy in which the
   conception of Second recieves exaggerated attention;
   for this One (though of course involving the idea of
   First) is always the other of a manifold which is not
   one.  The idea of the Many, because variety is
   arbitrariness and arbitrariness is repudiation of any
   Secondness, has for its principle component the           PEIRCE_THE_MAN
   conception of First.  In psychology Feeling is First,
   Sense of reaction Second, General conception Third,
   or mediation.  In biology, the idea of arbitrary
   sporting is First, heredity is Second, the process
   whereby the accidental characters become fixed is
   Third.  Chance is First, Law is Second, the tendency      THE_PEIRCE_HABIT
   to take habits is Third.  Mind is First, Matter is
   Second, Evolution is Third."

           ONE   TWO    MANY





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