[peirce-l] Re: Introduction

2006-02-12 Thread Benjamin Udell
Joe, list, Thank you for your recollections of Morgenbesser. He sounds so New York Jewish! To B.F. Skinner, Let me see if I understand your thesis. You think we shouldn't anthropomorphize people? Yes, I've come to think that the NYT claim sounds ridiculous (I didn't know what to think back

[peirce-l] Re: Introduction

2006-02-12 Thread Gary Richmond
offlist-- Joe wrote: the superior intelligence of the street-wise New Yorker in comparison with the well-protected genteel intelligence of the Cambridge academicians. Hey, who are you talkin' about? Are you talking about me???! Ben, all of your posts of late have been of the

[peirce-l] Re: Introduction

2006-02-12 Thread Gary Richmond
List, Sorry, that was to have gone directly to Ben's mailbox. Still, those of you who know that Ben and I live in New York may have gotten my inside joke. Gary Gary Richmond wrote: offlist-- Joe wrote: the superior intelligence of the street-wise New Yorker in comparison with the

[peirce-l] Re: NEW ELEMENTS: What is Part III about?

2006-02-12 Thread csthorne
Joe, list, I do want to belatedly comment on this provocative post. The dependency of the symbol on the interpretant is, it seems to me, rather strictly limited. While symbols are arbitrary in some sense, Peirce does not contemplate a free play of semiotic exchange, limited only by, as Rorty