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Peirce's clinical Metaphysics is the 1st e-book dedicated to figuring out Charles Sanders Peirce's (1839-1914) metaphysics from the viewpoint of the medical questions that stimulated his pondering. whereas supplying an in depth account of the medical principles and theories crucial for knowing Peirce's metaphysical approach, this publication is written in a fashion obtainable to the non-specialist.
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This suffices to show, I hope, that my reconstruction of Peirce’s understanding of these principles and their relationship to the condition of reversibility is correct. To repeat, the laws of motion fail to pick out a distinct direction in the sequence of physical events because of their extremely abstract and general nature; moreover, reversibility follows from the mechanical law of vis viva but is restricted to those systems involving only positional forces. The conservation of energy principle extends this result to all physical systems in general through the claim that all fundamental forces are positional/conservative.
23 Within biology, the idea that “ontogeny recapitulates phylogeny” is known as the recapitulationist Philosophical and Scientific Background thesis and is commonly associated with the names of Haeckel and Karl Ernst von Baer (1792–1876). (Though Gould warns that it is a mistake to attribute to von Baer the thesis that higher organisms pass through in their embryological development the adult stages of lower or more ancient species). Peirce is extending a loose version of this recapitulationist thesis to apply between human mental development and the evolution of the cosmos.
And because the law of vis viva implies that those systems to which it applies are reversible, it is for this reason that Peirce so often cites the principle of energy conservation as being responsible for the implication of reversibility. To say that the universe as a whole is a conservative system is to say, on this reading, that it is a reversible system. Perhaps because he was so familiar with all of these results and developments Peirce’s discussions of these issues is rather difficult to follow, for he seldom spells out clearly some of the more subtle distinctions, only hinting at them.