Supplement:I think, the difference I was talking about is that of reality versus virtuality, eg. God versus God (without and with quotation marks), or the actual process versus the process of interpretation. Both processes happen forward in time, but the interpretation (reflection) process
Howard, I’ve already complied with your request (last week), but I’ll try once
more to explain what it is that Peirce described as “occult and mysterious” in
his letter to Marie Noble (who was a student in his correspondence course on
logic). Actually a careful reading of the whole letter would
List, Howard:
On May 11, 2015, at 9:15 AM, Gary Fuhrman wrote:
In W6:37, Peirce says that two subjects are “occult and mysterious.” One is
“the power of nature that brings about the result of the chemical experiment”
– or more generally, causality in the physical universe. This is
