Friday, April 1, 2011

Charles Sanders Peirce on Generality, Existence, and Chaos

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"Generality is, indeed, an indispensable ingredient of reality; for mere individual existence or actuality without any regularity whatever is a nullity. Chaos is pure nothing."

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-Charles Sanders Peirce

No video on Charles Sanders Peirce, per se, but here's a short introduction to Semiotics, the study of signs, that Peirce and Ferdinand de Sassure semi-indepedently originated:

Primary Source: Peirce on Signs: Writings on Semiotic By Charles Sanders Peirce by Charles Sanders Peirce

Secondary Source: The Cambridge Companion to Peirce (Cambridge Companions to Philosophy) by Cheryl Misak

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