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synechism

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synechism (uncountable)

(philosophy) The tendency to regard things such as space, time, and law as continuous.

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Continua Continuity and synechism are central in Peirce's philosophy: "I did not at first suppose that it was, as I gradually came to find it, the master-Key of philosophy". Source: Internet

Peirce elsewhere argues (1897) that logic's presupposition of fallibilism leads at length to the view that chance and continuity are very real ( tychism and synechism ). Source: Internet

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