[[[ everybody else speaks of the cause of a "fact," which is an element of
the event. But, with Mill, it is the event in its entirety which is
caused.
The consequence is that Mill is obliged to define the cause as the
totality
of all the circumstances attending the event. This is, strictly speaking,
the Universe of being in its totality. But any event, just as it exists,
in
its entirety, is nothing else but the same Universe of being in its
totality. ]]]
Peirce tosses that off that final sentence as if it were too obvious to
require explanation, but as far as i can tell, it strongly resembles an
idea
developed at great and weighty length by several Chinese Buddhist
philosophers roughly a millennium ago (see e.g. Thomas Cleary, _Entry into
the Inconceivable_, 1983). Would you agree that it sounds Bohmian too?
gary F.
Dear Gary's,
Dispute aside, I've always delighted in Blake's expression of the
universe's enfoldedness--
To see a World in a Grain of Sand
And Heaven in a Wild Flower
Hold Infinity in the palm of your hand
And Eternity in an hour
Jim P
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