John S., Helmut, List: Of course, Peirce famously argued for the *Reality *of God, not the *existence *of God. He explained why in one of the manuscript drafts of "A Neglected Argument."
CSP: Thus, He is so much like a mind, and so little like a singular Existent (meaning by an Existent, or object that Exists, a thing subject to brute constraints, and reacting with all other Existents,) and so opposed in His Nature to an ideal possibility, that we may loosely say that He is a Spirit, or Mind. (R 843; 1908) He also addressed this a couple of years earlier. CSP: ... I myself always use *exist *in its strict philosophical sense of "react with the other like things in the environment." Of course, in that sense, it would be fetichism to say that God "exists." (CP 6.495; c. 1906) As for "the *logos *is God," consistent with the possible connection between the beginning as an indeterminate symbol (EP 2:322) and John 1:1, I think that this is 3ns (reality) rather than 2ns (existence)--at least, until "the *logos *became flesh and dwelt among us." Regards, Jon Alan Schmidt - Olathe, Kansas, USA Professional Engineer, Amateur Philosopher, Lutheran Layman www.LinkedIn.com/in/JonAlanSchmidt - twitter.com/JonAlanSchmidt On Sat, Apr 8, 2017 at 3:05 PM, Helmut Raulien <h.raul...@gmx.de> wrote: > John, List, > I think so, after your proof! > Best, Helmut > 08. April 2017 um 21:57 Uhr > "John F Sowa" <s...@bestweb.net> > > On 4/8/2017 2:59 PM, Helmut Raulien wrote: > > I would say, that the instantiation of a law is not it´s token, > > but the law itself at work. > > I agree. > > > So law is all type, there are no tokens of it in inanimate world > > of efficient causation. Is my guess. > > For a law of science, the proposition that states the law would > be a token. > > For a law of nature, I agree that we could never observe a token. > > But does that mean no token can exist? What would existence mean > for such a thing? Perhaps you could call it logos. As John the > Evangelist said, "The logos is God." Does God exist? > > John >
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