> So, Peirce had many ideas of Peirce and we could be in love with different > ones. "Pierce is who you think Pierce thinks he is?" > > > Do you have time to distinguish between your idea of Pierce and My idea of > Peirce as regards the digestion of metal ducks? > > I am realizing the problem might be with my understanding of the metal duck > example. I took at as a kind of cranky, idiosyncratic project, like my > desire to take apart a 25 year old fm radio and get it working again. You > might have meant it in a much more profound sense, a sense in which you use > your study of the digestion of metal ducks as a part of a systematic inquiry > into the nature of life. In that case, you are right, Peirce would > definitely have approved and I have slandered you both. > > > Nick > > Nicholas Thompson > Emeritus Professor of Ethology and Psychology > Clark University > [email protected] > https://wordpress.clarku.edu/nthompson/ > > > > -----Original Message----- > From: Friam <[email protected]> On Behalf Of u?l? ? > Sent: Monday, April 20, 2020 3:00 PM > To: FriAM <[email protected]> > Subject: Re: [FRIAM] IS: "...useful". WAS:: whackadoodles go mainstream! > > I think your Peirce simulation might deny it. But his very useful work in > logic (at the very least) shows he was capable of realizing the same sense of > what is useful that I have. You're not in love with Peirce, your in love with > your idea of Peirce. > > On 4/20/20 1:38 PM, [email protected] wrote: >> To the Pragmatism chat-site and watch it light up. But you have taught me >> that that would be trolling, and I believe that trolling is an unequivocally >> Bad Thing, so I won’t. >> >> [...] >> Because it’s inventor, Peirce, would not have tolerated a definition of >> “useful” in terms of “making metal ducks that shit,” and William James would >> have. > -- > ☣ uǝlƃ > > .-. .- -. -.. --- -- -..-. -.. --- - ... -..-. .- -. -.. -..-. -.. .- ... > .... . ... > FRIAM Applied Complexity Group listserv > Zoom Fridays 9:30a-12p Mtn GMT-6 bit.ly/virtualfriam unsubscribe > http://redfish.com/mailman/listinfo/friam_redfish.com > archives: http://friam.471366.n2.nabble.com/ > FRIAM-COMIC http://friam-comic.blogspot.com/ > > > .-. .- -. -.. --- -- -..-. -.. --- - ... -..-. .- -. -.. -..-. -.. .- ... > .... . ... > FRIAM Applied Complexity Group listserv > Zoom Fridays 9:30a-12p Mtn GMT-6 bit.ly/virtualfriam > unsubscribe http://redfish.com/mailman/listinfo/friam_redfish.com > archives: http://friam.471366.n2.nabble.com/ > FRIAM-COMIC http://friam-comic.blogspot.com/ >
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