[peirce-l] Re: reduction of the manifold to unity

2006-09-13 Thread Arnold Shepperson
Joe, Jim What Joe has said in his response to Jim of Sept 12, seems to reflect something that may have arisen from Peirce's early exposure to philosophy: his reading of Schiller's _Aesthetic Letters_. In writing up a report on cultural impacts in occupational health and safety, I found myself

[peirce-l] Re: reduction of the manifold to unity

2006-09-13 Thread Jim Piat
REPLY: I would say that his theory of representation has to be capable of articulating that distinction or there is something wrong with it, but I don't think that it is to be looked for merely in the distinction between the dyadic and the triadic but rather in something to

[peirce-l] Re: The roots of speech-act theory in the New List

2006-09-13 Thread Benjamin Udell
Jim, [Jim Willgoose:] I am playing at trying to reject it. ("poss.Bs poss.~Bs") I have accepted it more often than not. Now you tell me. [Jim] I also understand the difference between discussing formal properties that hold between propositions (modal or non-modal) and forming a "1st

[peirce-l] Re: Pragmatic inquiry == the love of learning

2006-09-13 Thread Gary Richmond
Arnold, Jim, list, I hope you won't mind my posting my response to your personal email, Arnold, as your comments seem most pertinent to the subject of the thread. [Note: off-list I sent Arnold a graphic image: the reflection of teaching as learning which is attached here and should appear

[peirce-l] Re: Pragmatic inquiry == the love of learning

2006-09-13 Thread Gary Richmond
I forgot to include the graphic. Here it is. Gary Richmond wrote: Arnold, Jim, list, I hope you won't mind my posting my response to your personal email, Arnold, as your comments seem most pertinent to the subject of the thread. [Note: off-list I sent Arnold a graphic image: the

[peirce-l] Re: Pragmatic inquiry == the love of learning

2006-09-13 Thread Darrel Summers
All, This post probably will not advance the subject, butI thought I would share an insight it has brought to me. My six year old daughter (who posed a question about "nothing" some time ago) has been reading at a six year olds level for about a year now (thankfully unremarkable). She

[peirce-l] Re: The roots of speech-act theory in the New List

2006-09-13 Thread jwillgoose
Ben, You say, "Saying that the NLC 'theory' of cognition (which seems to me no more a cognition theory than Peircean truth theory is an inquiry theory even though it references inquiry) is sufficient except when we talk about possibility, feasibility, etc., is -- especially if that list

[peirce-l] Until later (was Re: The roots of speech-act theory in the New List)

2006-09-13 Thread Benjamin Udell
Jim, list, This remains interesting, but, generally, this forum is too addictive for me! I have to get on with practical matters which are, at this point, getting over my head. So I'm unsubscribing for a few months. Thanks for people's interest, Gary, Joe, Jim P., Jim W.,Bernard, and any

[peirce-l] Re: Pragmatic inquiry == the love of learning

2006-09-13 Thread Gary Richmond
Darrel, list, You wrote: DS: It would seem my teaching of letters and words may not have had learning in my mind, hence; I am not a teacher. It seems to me that a parent entering into this kind of dialogue with his child certainly has learning "in his mind" at that moment (even if perhaps

[peirce-l] Re: Pragmatic inquiry == the love of learning

2006-09-13 Thread Jim Piat
My six year old daughter (who posed a question about "nothing" some time ago) has been reading at a six year olds level for about a year now (thankfully unremarkable). She came to me recently and said "I learned that words are made of letters at school today". I said "Grace,

[peirce-l] Re: Pragmatic inquiry == the love of learning

2006-09-13 Thread Gary Richmond
Jim Piat wrote: Way cool graphic! Glad you liked it. Here are a few others suitable to a philosophical list. And finally, a related perceptual matter. You've probably seen this before, but it's always somewhat amazing to me (does anyone have a theory as to

[peirce-l] Re: Pragmatic inquiry == the love of learning

2006-09-13 Thread Jim Piat
And finally, a related perceptual matter. You've probably seen this before, but it's always somewhat amazing to me (does anyone have a theory as to why it's iprmoatnt taht the frist and lsat ltteer be in the rghit pclae? Dear Gary, There is a lot of research showing the importancethat