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CP 1.433. ... There are different kinds of existence. There is the existence of physical actions, there is the existence of psychical volitions, there is the existence of all time, there is the existence of the present, there is the existence of material things, there is the existence of the creations of one of Shakespeare's plays, and, for aught we know, there may be another creation with a space and time of its own in which things may exist. Each kind of existence consists in having a place among the total collection of such a universe. It consists in being a second to any object in such universe taken as first. It is not time and space which produce this character. It is rather this character which for its realization calls for something like time and space. END
Do you get the impression that Peirce is comfortable with the inexplicable, the porousness of matter, and other indications that causality is not something that springs from matter.
Other writing of Peirce makes it clear that he believes that a mind, a powerful one, is behind everything that is and that an explanation is obtained only gradually.
Do you get the impression that Peirce is comfortable with the inexplicable, the porousness of matter, and other indications that causality is not something that springs from matter.
Other writing of Peirce makes it clear that he believes that a mind, a powerful one, is behind everything that is and that an explanation is obtained only gradually.
