Was Metphysical Club: C.S.Pierce and the Chums of Chance

[David Morris]

WOW!
Chance & Jung are linked in his preface to Whilhelm's I  Ching. I think he
called it significant chance. A good short read.


On Thursday, March 29, 2012, Mark Kohut wrote:

> Goes out to Michael Bailey for bringing him up:
>
> C.S. Pierce is a philosopher who has a major place for Chance
> in his systematic philosophy.  One way to state a slice of his
> cosmological argument,if I haven't lost it, is: There must be an active
> element of
> Chance in the universe otherwise entropy would already have been
> achieved and stasis would still be reigning unknown to all of us who
> wouldn't
> exist.
>
> Chance means all the material that is the universe is NOT predetermined to
> be what it is forever otherwise see above. Apply the above to The Eternal
> Return
> also,which would be the eternal return of said stasis, pace Nietzsche and
> Eliade.
>
> Whatever is The Universe has random physical material surprises.
>
> Or else (a) God intervenes--or has.
>
> *Tychism* (Greek <http://us.mg6.mail.yahoo.com/wiki/Greek_language>: τύχη"chance") is a thesis proposed by the American philosopher Charles
> Sanders Peirce <http://us.mg6.mail.yahoo.com/wiki/Charles_Sanders_Peirce>that holds that absolute
> chance <http://us.mg6.mail.yahoo.com/wiki/Chance>, or indeterminism<http://us.mg6.mail.yahoo.com/wiki/Indeterminism>,
> is a real factor operative in the universe. T
> his doctrine forms a central part of Peirce's comprehensive evolutionary
> cosmology <http://us.mg6.mail.yahoo.com/wiki/Cosmology>. It may be
> considered both the direct opposite of Einstein<http://us.mg6.mail.yahoo.com/wiki/Einstein>'s
> oft quoted dictum that: "God does not play dice<http://us.mg6.mail.yahoo.com/wiki/God_does_not_play_dice>with the universe" and an early philosophical anticipation of Werner
> Heisenberg <http://us.mg6.mail.yahoo.com/wiki/Werner_Heisenberg>'s uncertainty
> principle <http://us.mg6.mail.yahoo.com/wiki/Uncertainty_principle>.
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