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Peirce: CP 6 Ed. Note p v. Metaphysics, as the third of the philosophic disciplines, has, according to Peirce, three branches--ontology, religion, and cosmology (see 1.192). As he viewed it, it presupposes logic, the topic of volumes II-IV, which in turn rests on ethics, esthetics and phenomenology, discussed in volume I. Though his architectonic prescribes a separate treatment for ontology and cosmology, he never actually separated them. The first book of the present volume, built around five articles first published in 1892-93, embraces both subjects. Of primary interest are its discussions of absolute chance, or tychism, and objective continuity, or synechism (the latter being viewed as a synthesis of the former with pragmatism, the topic of volume V). It is this portion of Peirce's philosophy that most interested his philosophical contemporaries, and which is most pertinent to current cosmological speculations. It relates directly to that type of naturalism which takes scientific laws to be real and immanent--and thus subject to change, and incapable of precise determination. The second book of the volume, devoted to religion or "psychical metaphysics," has rather tenuous connections with the rest of the system, offering, apart from scattered flashes of insight, views which have a sociological or biographical, rather than a fundamental systematic interest. END
I am not going to dwell on this weak editors' note other than to ask what the difference is between synechism and the sort of religion. better seen as spirituality, that Peirce made possible. Their answer is none. But the editors insist on making a division, a binary divide
Here is what Google says about synechism. You decide:
"As a research program, synechism is a scientific maxim to seek continuities where discontinuities are thought to be permanent and to seek semiotic relations where only dyadic relations are thought to exist."
This the substance of Triadic Philosophy which sees past these worthies to a true synthesis of the type Peirce desired.
I am not going to dwell on this weak editors' note other than to ask what the difference is between synechism and the sort of religion. better seen as spirituality, that Peirce made possible. Their answer is none. But the editors insist on making a division, a binary divide
Here is what Google says about synechism. You decide:
"As a research program, synechism is a scientific maxim to seek continuities where discontinuities are thought to be permanent and to seek semiotic relations where only dyadic relations are thought to exist."
This the substance of Triadic Philosophy which sees past these worthies to a true synthesis of the type Peirce desired.
