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Peirce: CP 2.650 For we found that the distinction of reality and fiction depends on the supposition that sufficient investigation would cause one opinion to be universally received and all others to be rejected. That presupposition, involved in the very conceptions of reality and figment, involves a complete sundering of the two. It is the heaven-and-hell idea in the domain of thought. But, in the long run, there is a real fact which corresponds to the idea of probability, and it is that a given mode of inference sometimes proves successful and sometimes not, and that in a ratio ultimately fixed. As we go on drawing inference after inference of the given kind, during the first ten or hundred cases the ratio of successes may be expected to show considerable fluctuations; but when we come into the thousands and millions, these fluctuations become less and less; and if we continue long enough, the ratio will approximate toward a fixed limit. We may, therefore, define the probability of a mode of argument as the proportion of cases in which it carries truth with it.”
Here Peirce uses Heaven and Hell as a suggestive phrase referring to a human construct that is binary thinking. Heaven and Earth are one and Hell is the outgrowth if human imagination's descent into the realms of negativity.
Presumably if inferences are followed in sequence, opposing things will ultimately be sorted out.
But there is another approach to binary opposites and it is that ultimately the opposition becomes moot. Hell becomes subsumed by Heaven.
Hell is based on premises that do not ultimately hold.
It does not hold that all negative deeds are evil and unforgivable. It does not hold that freely chosen negativity is necessarily wrong. Nor does it hold that the ineffable resolutions of heaven do not ultimately elicit the free assent of souls who have undergone the miseries of a voluntary separation from love.
The design of the Universe is that the proportion of negative results fluctuates but that over time the trajectory moves in a positive direction. Heaven is the existing proof of the state of grace which betokens the triumph of positivity.
Here Peirce uses Heaven and Hell as a suggestive phrase referring to a human construct that is binary thinking. Heaven and Earth are one and Hell is the outgrowth if human imagination's descent into the realms of negativity.
Presumably if inferences are followed in sequence, opposing things will ultimately be sorted out.
But there is another approach to binary opposites and it is that ultimately the opposition becomes moot. Hell becomes subsumed by Heaven.
Hell is based on premises that do not ultimately hold.
It does not hold that all negative deeds are evil and unforgivable. It does not hold that freely chosen negativity is necessarily wrong. Nor does it hold that the ineffable resolutions of heaven do not ultimately elicit the free assent of souls who have undergone the miseries of a voluntary separation from love.
The design of the Universe is that the proportion of negative results fluctuates but that over time the trajectory moves in a positive direction. Heaven is the existing proof of the state of grace which betokens the triumph of positivity.
