Patternhood and Generality: A Peircean Approach to Emergence.
A distinction often drawn in the literature on emergence is that between epistemological emergence and ontological emergence. I argue that the position that there are instances of ontological emergence in the world (radical emergentism) and the position that all instances of emergence are epistemolo...
| Publicado en: | European Journal of Pragmatism & American Philosophy Vol. 11; no. 2; pp. 1 - 24 |
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European Journal of Pragmatism & American Philosophy
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