Are you sure? James died August 26, 1910. J. Lurac _You wrote: I've been away from the list a while and don't know whether this has been discussed before. Perhaps you can help me. I've been concerned with James lately, particularly his comment about Peirce's essay which he found in
It's
just a typing error for "1869". But as regards the question, it
is reasonable to suppose that James was influenced by that article even
if there is no evidence other than the evidence for him having read it,
provided there is something in it which suggests this. It was
during a period in
Bill, i sent this offline but got bounced by one of your filters. Well,
it's short.
[[ I don't doubt your sincerity, only your California style dharma. ]]
:-) I've never been to California, so can't comment on that attribution.
But i've noticed that the New Age epithet is often useful as an
And if you
investigate Mahayana Buddhist texts seriously
gary F.
:=)
Bill Bailey
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Gene,
Let me say first of all, that I meant to specifically reject that
Hobbesonian notion of man in a state of nature, man as feral, and to
affirm that the state of nature for the human is to be socialized and
languagized. Looking back upon what I wrote, I think it must have been
the
Dear Folks--
I'm trying to think of some sort of non
psychologistic sounding way of describing or accounting for the drive to settle
doubt. I'm thinking that doubt represents uncertainty (a measure of
information) and uncertainty poses risk.In general,
dynamic sytems tend toward
Jim P,
Interesting. But if all the scientist did was "average" three defective modes of inquiry, wouldn't we be stuck with the "least total error," yet an error nevertheless? We would have all agreed that the earth is flat, Euclidean geometry is the true physical geometry, a part can never
