Dear Joe,
Thanks for your response and the quote. On second thoughts, informed with the quote you provided, some kind of evolution seems to be involved. But, being evolution of a conception, it must be of logical nature. I can't see how it could hold as a hypothesis of evolution of either
Kristi, Joe, list:
The human is a social animal, born into a social group
which typically has a full array of habits, customs in place. That strikes
me as a given. "We've always done it that way, and that's the way it will
be done" seems to me what Peirce is talking about as tenacity
Bill, Kirsti, and list generally:
Let's go back to a short MS from 1869-70 (available on-line,
from Vol 2 of the Writings), which is the earliest MS I am
aware of -- but not necessarily the earliest one there is -- in which
we find Peirce explicitly approaching logic, in what is
clearly a
Title: [peirce-l] Re: What fundamenal psychological
laws is Pei
Joe, Kristi, list,
At the risk of offering a post hoc, ergo propter hoc
argument, I'll try looking at the issue from the prespective of
Peirce's more mature views.
I consider the Fixation essay to be organized around
a sort of
Joe and list,
It is difficult to tell exactly what those two psychological laws are from the text. (preceding the quote below) It is also difficult to frame them universally. Either we talk of all men at all times or some men at all times or all men at some time or another. I think we could
Bill, Kirsti, et al:
In my earlier message I mischaracterized the method he describes
in MS 165. And of course what later becomes the fourth
method or method of reason is only alluded to rather than described
except in the last paragraph of this MS where he talks about "the
Children of This
Title: [peirce-l] Re: What "fundamenal psychological
laws" is Pei
Martin -- and Bill:
Martin, I find what you are saying both plausible and resulting in a
gemerally consistent view. Something can be done, too, to put a
more positive face on the first two methods, which need not be
construed as
