> On Jul 16, 2016, at 11:19 AM, Helmut Raulien <[email protected]> wrote: > > I donot think, that things can take habits. I think, only organisms can.
As others mentioned that’s not the way Peirce thinks of it. The best way to think of it is that Peirce is using habit as a metaphor for regularities. Thus say early symmetry breakings in the universe leading to the laws of physics we have (and the very nature of ‘things’) is habit acquisition. Without taking the time to search Peirce’s writings it’d be interesting to see if he ever calls thermodynamic states habits. i.e. freezing of ice.
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