  There is an interesting connection between Peirce’s tychism, his view that  there is objective spontaneity in the universe, and the foregoing account  of probability. For Peirce understood the universe of appearances as a logical  process, somewhat in the same manner that Hegel understood the universe of  appearances as the phenomenology of spirit. He tended to consider a given  state of the universe as being a given set of premisses, so to say, of a  possible inference. Then a subsequent state of the universe could be seen as  being the conclusion of an actual inference. Thus Peirce tended to see the  universe of appearances as bringing itself into being by a process  that is ultimately logical. The world, as it were, evolves by abducing, deducing, and inducing itself. It is in some sense Hegel’s  “Thought thinking thought.”