Chris Campbell
@ekaelement.bsky.social
Historian and philosopher of science with an interest in the foundational period of Chinese philosophy and the thoughts of Charles Sanders Peirce.
And perhaps, by the American philosopher Charles Sanders Peirce….
July 4, 2025 at 9:56 AM
And perhaps, by the American philosopher Charles Sanders Peirce….
Beautiful; thank you.
July 2, 2025 at 7:59 AM
Beautiful; thank you.
From the tree of Peirce….
July 1, 2025 at 7:06 PM
From the tree of Peirce….
Is that George Smiley in the distance…?
June 19, 2025 at 11:31 PM
Is that George Smiley in the distance…?
Thank you for your truly beautiful photographs.
June 15, 2025 at 8:38 PM
Thank you for your truly beautiful photographs.
‘ Ireceived life because the time had come; I will lose it because the order of things passes on. Be content with this time and dwell in this order and then neither sorrow nor joy can touch you. In ancient times this was called the ‘freeing of the bound.’
Zhuangzi
Go well….
Zhuangzi
Go well….
June 9, 2025 at 8:09 PM
‘ Ireceived life because the time had come; I will lose it because the order of things passes on. Be content with this time and dwell in this order and then neither sorrow nor joy can touch you. In ancient times this was called the ‘freeing of the bound.’
Zhuangzi
Go well….
Zhuangzi
Go well….
Tin soldiers and Nixon coming
We're finally on our own
This summer I hear the drumming…..
CSN&Y
We're finally on our own
This summer I hear the drumming…..
CSN&Y
June 8, 2025 at 10:48 PM
Tin soldiers and Nixon coming
We're finally on our own
This summer I hear the drumming…..
CSN&Y
We're finally on our own
This summer I hear the drumming…..
CSN&Y
Reposted by Chris Campbell
He sees clearly into what has no falsehood and does not shift with things. He takes it as fate that things should change, and he holds fast to the source.”
— Zhuangzi, The Complete Works of Zhuangzi, Watson tr. (Ch 5)
— Zhuangzi, The Complete Works of Zhuangzi, Watson tr. (Ch 5)
June 8, 2025 at 3:12 PM
He sees clearly into what has no falsehood and does not shift with things. He takes it as fate that things should change, and he holds fast to the source.”
— Zhuangzi, The Complete Works of Zhuangzi, Watson tr. (Ch 5)
— Zhuangzi, The Complete Works of Zhuangzi, Watson tr. (Ch 5)
Enjoy ‘free and easy wandering’…….. Go well….
May 18, 2025 at 8:24 AM
Enjoy ‘free and easy wandering’…….. Go well….
‘Knowledge is a plastic, applicable stuff….’
Some chemistry references here (barytes)….also anybody else surprised at Peirce’s use of the word ‘stuff’….?
Some chemistry references here (barytes)….also anybody else surprised at Peirce’s use of the word ‘stuff’….?
May 17, 2025 at 8:50 PM
‘Knowledge is a plastic, applicable stuff….’
Some chemistry references here (barytes)….also anybody else surprised at Peirce’s use of the word ‘stuff’….?
Some chemistry references here (barytes)….also anybody else surprised at Peirce’s use of the word ‘stuff’….?
Were there three men and a dog in your boat…?
May 15, 2025 at 8:22 PM
Were there three men and a dog in your boat…?
Couldn’t be clearer…..!
May 12, 2025 at 9:28 PM
Couldn’t be clearer…..!
Peirce’s Kantian chemistry…
‘I shall now attempt to show that the fhcts of chemistry are explicable by the view of Kant, that matter is not absolutely
impenetrable and that chemical union consists in the interpenetration of the constituents’
CSP 1862
‘I shall now attempt to show that the fhcts of chemistry are explicable by the view of Kant, that matter is not absolutely
impenetrable and that chemical union consists in the interpenetration of the constituents’
CSP 1862
May 11, 2025 at 5:18 PM
Peirce’s Kantian chemistry…
‘I shall now attempt to show that the fhcts of chemistry are explicable by the view of Kant, that matter is not absolutely
impenetrable and that chemical union consists in the interpenetration of the constituents’
CSP 1862
‘I shall now attempt to show that the fhcts of chemistry are explicable by the view of Kant, that matter is not absolutely
impenetrable and that chemical union consists in the interpenetration of the constituents’
CSP 1862
Peirce’s sketches accompanying his notes on acetylene.
May 10, 2025 at 9:58 PM
Peirce’s sketches accompanying his notes on acetylene.
Beautiful. Thank you.
May 8, 2025 at 5:55 AM
Beautiful. Thank you.
‘We must not begin by talking of pure ideas, – vagabond thoughts that tramp the public roads without any human habitation, – but must begin with men and their conversation.’ CSP
May 4, 2025 at 7:05 PM
‘We must not begin by talking of pure ideas, – vagabond thoughts that tramp the public roads without any human habitation, – but must begin with men and their conversation.’ CSP
Sadly,
Regretfully,
‘I cannot bend the happenings of the world to my will: I am completely powerless.
The world is independent of my will.’
Wittgenstein
Regretfully,
‘I cannot bend the happenings of the world to my will: I am completely powerless.
The world is independent of my will.’
Wittgenstein
April 21, 2025 at 4:50 PM
Sadly,
Regretfully,
‘I cannot bend the happenings of the world to my will: I am completely powerless.
The world is independent of my will.’
Wittgenstein
Regretfully,
‘I cannot bend the happenings of the world to my will: I am completely powerless.
The world is independent of my will.’
Wittgenstein
Policy makers: “Do Not Block the Way of Inquiry,"….
April 20, 2025 at 6:30 AM
Policy makers: “Do Not Block the Way of Inquiry,"….
‘It is evident to any one who takes a survey of the objects of human knowledge, that they are either ideas actually imprinted on the senses; or else such as are perceived by attending to the passions and operations of the mind; or lastly, ideas formed by help of memory and imagination….’
Berkeley
Berkeley
April 18, 2025 at 8:23 AM
‘It is evident to any one who takes a survey of the objects of human knowledge, that they are either ideas actually imprinted on the senses; or else such as are perceived by attending to the passions and operations of the mind; or lastly, ideas formed by help of memory and imagination….’
Berkeley
Berkeley