Category: Peirce
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Nota Notae Est Nota Rei Ipsius and the Ontological Argument
(By popular demand, I repost the following old Powerblogs entry.) "The mark of a mark is a mark of the thing itself." I found this piece of scholasticism in C. S. Peirce. (Justus Buchler, ed., Philosophical Writings of Peirce, p. 133) It is an example of what Peirce calls a 'leading principle.' Let's say you…