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To an observer standing outside of its generating causes, novelty can appear only as so much 'chance'; to one who stands inside it is the expression of 'free creative activity. Peirce's 'tychism' is thus practically synonymous with Bergson's 'devenir réel. The common objection to admitting novelties is that by jumping abruptly in, ex nihilo, they shatter the world's rational continuity.
Peirce meets this objection by combining his tychism The intervals also deflect us from the original paths of direction, and all the old identities at last give out, for the fatally continuous infiltration of otherness warps things out of every original rut.
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