Helmut, List:
HR: "To make our ideas clear", a word should have only one meaning,
Peirce agrees, especially when it comes to scientific (including
philosophical) terminology.
CSP: As to the ideal to be aimed at, it is, in the first place, desirable
for any branch of science that it should have
Helmut,
In Peirce's terms, existence is one of three modes of being. Many philosophers,
he says, “recognize but one mode of being, the being of an individual thing or
fact, the being which consists in the object's crowding out a place for itself
in the universe, so to speak, and reacting by
Jon, List,
Altough I see your explanation, I am not completely happy with two different
definitions of "existence", or two different universes of experience. "To make
our ideas clear", a word should have only one meaning, is what I feel.
Otherwise there would be a possibility of rethorical move
