Habit-taking
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Article in Journal | Posted 02/10/2017 Dearmont, David (1995). A Hint at Peirce's Empirical Evidence for Tychism Discusses the views of philosopher Charles S. Peirce on tychism and habit-taking. Relation between the philosophy of absolute chance and habit-taking; Claims of Peirce for absolute chance and habit-...
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Article in Edited Collection | Posted 05/09/2017 Semetsky, Inna (2017). The Embodied Mind: Education as the Transformation of Habits. In: Edusemiotics - A Handbook Mind as embodied in nature—in contrast to the human mind and natural world being considered binary categories as separate Cartesian substances that oppose each other—is a feature of edusemiotics....
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Dictionary Entry | Posted 22/10/2015 Quote from "Questions on William James's Principles of Psychology 1" Is this classification of “mental states” as feelings and thoughts sufficiently scientific? Is it not better to adopt the logical division not of “mental states” but of mental elements,... |
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Dictionary Entry | Posted 22/10/2015 Quote from "Cambridge Lectures on Reasoning and the Logic of Things: Habit" …any fundamental universal tendency ought to manifest itself in nature. Where shall we look for it? We could not expect to find it in such phenomena as gravitation where the evolution has so... |
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Dictionary Entry | Posted 22/10/2015 Quote from "Reply to the Necessitarians: Rejoinder to Dr. Carus" A realist, such as I am, can find no difficulty in the production of that first infinitesimal germ of habit-taking by chance, provided he thinks chance could act at all. This seems, at first blush... |
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Dictionary Entry | Posted 22/10/2015 Quote from "Man's Glassy Essence" …it may fairly be urged that since the phenomena of habit may thus result from a purely mechanical arrangement, it is unnecessary to suppose that habit-taking is a primordial principle of the... |
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Dictionary Entry | Posted 21/10/2015 Quote from "Logic and Spiritualism [R]" Hyperbolic philosophy has to assume for starting-point something free, as neither requiring explanation nor admitting derivation. The free is living; the immediately living is feeling... |
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Dictionary Entry | Posted 21/10/2015 Quote from "A Guess at the Riddle" I think that everybody must admit that the condition of excitation of nerve-cells is. broadly speaking, the physiological basis of Feeling, and that the discharge of nerve-cells, or the movement... |
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Dictionary Entry | Posted 20/10/2015 Quote from "One, Two, Three: Kantian Categories" We have to suppose that in looking into the indefinite past we are looking into back towards times when the element of law played an indefinitely small part in the universe. If the universe... |
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Dictionary Entry | Posted 20/10/2015 Quote from "A Guess at the Riddle" Uniformities in the modes of action of things have come about by their taking habits. At present, the course of events is approximately determined by law. In the past that approximation was less... |
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Article in Journal | Posted 25/11/2014 Ventimiglia, Michael (2008). Reclaiming the Peircean Cosmology: Existential Abduction and the Growth of the Self The article presents an analysis regarding Charles Peirce's cosmology about the growing self. It attempts to apply Peirce's thoughts about abduction and the growth of cosmic ideas to the...
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