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Synechism (from Greek συνεχής ''synechḗs'', "continuous" + ''-ism'', from σύν ''syn'', "together" + ἔχειν ''échein>'', "to have", "to hold"), a philosophical term proposed by C. S. Peirce〔"The Law of Mind", ''Monist'', ii. (534 ), reprinted (''Collected Papers of Charles Sanders Peirce'' v. 6, paragraphs 102-163) (''Essential Peirce'' 1, pp. 312-333).〕 to express the tendency to regard things such as space, time, and law as continuous:〔See p. 115 in ''Reasoning and the Logic of Things'', Ketner, ed., 1992, from Peirce's 1898 lectures.〕 His synechism holds that the essential feature in philosophic speculation is continuity. It denies that all is merely ideas, likewise that all is merely matter, and mind-matter dualism. The adjective "synechological" is used in the same general sense; "synechology" is a theory of continuity or universal causation; "synechia" is a term in ophthalmology for a morbid union of parts. ==The Categories== Peirce held that there are three elements or categories throughout experience: *Firstness, quality of feeling—possibility, idea, vagueness, chance, "some". *Secondness, reaction, resistance—actuality, brute fact, individuality, discreteness, "this". *Thirdness, representation, mediation—necessity or destiny, habit, law, generality, continuity, "all". Peirce held that firstness and secondness, as elements, give thirdness and continuity something upon which to operate, and that continuity governs all experience and every element in it. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Synechism」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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