Charles Sanders Peirce Quote

Here we must make one of those inductive applications of the law of continuity which have produced such great results in all of the positive sciences. We must extend the law of insistency into the future. Plainly, the insistency of a future idea with reference to the present is a quantity affected by the minus sign; for it is the present that affects the future, if there be any effect, not the future that affects the present.


The Law of Mind (1892)


Here we must make one of those inductive applications of the law of continuity which have produced such great results in all of the positive...

Here we must make one of those inductive applications of the law of continuity which have produced such great results in all of the positive...

Here we must make one of those inductive applications of the law of continuity which have produced such great results in all of the positive...

Here we must make one of those inductive applications of the law of continuity which have produced such great results in all of the positive...