The Commens Dictionary

Quote from ‘Immortality in the Light of Synechism’

Quote: 

The word synechism is the English form of the Greek {synechismos}, from {synechés}, continuous. For two centuries we have been affixing -ist and -ism to words, in order to note sects which exalt the importance of those elements which the stem-words signify. Thus, materialism is the doctrine that matter is everything, idealism the doctrine that ideas are everything, dualism the philosophy which splits everything in two. In like manner, I have proposed to make synechism mean the tendency to regard everything as continuous.

[—] I carry the doctrine so far as to maintain that continuity governs the whole domain of experience in every element of it.

Date: 
1893
References: 
EP 2:1
Citation: 
‘Synechism’ (pub. 09.03.13-10:31). 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-immortality-light-synechism-0.
Posted: 
Mar 09, 2013, 10:31 by Sami Paavola
Last revised: 
Jan 07, 2014, 00:58 by Commens Admin