I am now on the net
looking for sources for notion of vagueness connected with CS Peirce. By doing
so, I also found some books on Amazon by Floyd Merrel. My question is whether
this guy is scientist or more like independent scholar. And I am actually
wondering whether he is on this list??
Thanks Bill for your comments.
You wrote:
Patrick,
I'm don't know what in my post you're replying to. I don't keep my
posts, so I can't be sure, but I don't recall mentioning an
expression continuum, segments or meaning continuum. I may
have; I sometimes think I only think I know what I
Steven, thanks for a thoughtful reply.
I'll have a look at Christophe Koch's article and perhaps get back to
you on the basis of my reading of that.
I notice however that any public discussion of it may be a bit
complicated since he explicitly asks readers not to cite from it
without his
Patrick,
My responses are interspersed below.
- Original Message -
From: Patrick Coppock [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: Peirce Discussion Forum peirce-l@lyris.ttu.edu
Cc: Bill Bailey [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Monday, July 03, 2006 9:26 AM
Subject: [peirce-l] Re: Sinsign, Legisign, Qualisign -
Jerry Chandler wrote:
"But, my point is that if four different
groups are necessary to construct an optical isomer of carbon such that it
distinguishes between the logic of polarized light, then it is mathematically
impossible to achieve this logical distinction with any notion of
Dear Folks,
I've long been sceptical about the notion of good
and evil. So as an exercise of self discipline I thought I'd give a go at
trying to develop a general idea of the notion of good and ask for others to
share some of their views as well.
Seem to me that good is an evaluation we
Dear Folks,
Sorry about that last post on the qaulity of
good -- I was working on a draft which I meant to save but sent
instead. I had just got to the point of realizing I had nothing to
say other than I think Rawls had it about right in so far as I can tell from the
blurb on the cover of
