Helmut, List: What exactly is your definition of "the epistemic cut"? What "gap" are you positing that supposedly needs to be "bridged"? What do quantity and quality have to do with it? What do you mean by "coordinate systems" in this context?
If what you have in mind is knower vs. known and/or internal vs. external, then I suspect that Peirce--the self-described synechist and objective idealist--would reject treating them as separate in the first place. As Paul Forster summarizes, "For Peirce, subject and object are not ready-made, self-contained entities, they are interdependent and interdefined. ... Mind and world can be 'discriminated' but they cannot be 'prescinded'; like effort and resistance they are distinguishable but not separable" (https://www.jstor.org/stable/40320386, p. 702, 1992). Since the title of that paper is "Peirce and the Threat of Nominalism," matching Forster's subsequent book ( https://isidore.co/calibre/get/PDF/4075/CalibreLibrary, 2011), I wonder once more if the underlying dispute here is between nominalism and scholastic realism. Regards, Jon Alan Schmidt - Olathe, Kansas, USA Structural Engineer, Synechist Philosopher, Lutheran Christian www.LinkedIn.com/in/JonAlanSchmidt / twitter.com/JonAlanSchmidt On Wed, Sep 3, 2025 at 2:12 PM Helmut Raulien <[email protected]> wrote: > Jon, Jack, List, > > sorry that I write something without having fully understood your > positions. Is what you are talking about the epistemic cut, and whether it > is bridgeable by applying an infinity to one side of its? In this case, I > would say that this way it is not bridgeable. Why should infinity of > inquiry be able to bridge a gap, which exists not due to different > quantity, but due to different quality? > > In chaos theory, a quantity difference can switch to quality difference, > but in a common coordinate system. I think, aboutness is about two > separated-by-nature coordinate systems, one ontological, and one > representative. > > Best, Helmut >
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