MS 292-295 (1906) - Prolegomena to an Apology for Pragmaticism

I must not omit to mention that it is only in the simplest cases that a universe of discourse will be homogeneous. If it is so, it will consist of a multitude of individual objects having dyadic relations to each other, and it will be in this relation to the other objects of the universe that its existence will consist. I do not mean, of course, to deny that there may be triadic relations, or that the dyadic relations themselves may have a triadic basis, but it is in so far as they are dyadic that they constitute the existence of the objects. Take, for example, the universe of material atoms. An atom that did not act upon others would simply not exist in this universe. As long as it does exist, it exists, whether it acts according to law or not. Perhaps, if there were no regularity in its action, one could not say that it really acts. That is [an?] extraneous consideration that it is not necessary to enter into. Still, having been led