The Commens Dictionary

Quote from ‘Issues of Pragmaticism’

Term: 
Necessitarianism
Quote: 

…Necessitarianism is the doctrine that there is no objective indetermination of Modality; it abolishes objective necessity and possibility together, and only conceives the future as that which will have been.

Source: 
Peirce, Charles S. (1905). Issues of Pragmaticism. MS [R] 290
Date: 
1905
References: 
MS [R] 290:52
Citation: 
‘Necessitarianism’ (pub. 26.08.13-06:49). Quote in M. Bergman & S. Paavola (Eds.), The Commens Dictionary: Peirce's Terms in His Own Words. New Edition. Retrieved from http://www.commens.org/dictionary/entry/quote-issues-pragmaticism-9.
Posted: 
Aug 26, 2013, 06:49 by Mats Bergman
Last revised: 
Jan 07, 2014, 00:51 by Commens Admin