Objects, Objectives, Objectivity:
JA:http://web.archive.org/web/20140326203601/http://permalink.gmane.org/gmane.science.philosophy.peirce/12321
VNA:http://web.archive.org/web/20140326210000/http://permalink.gmane.org/gmane.science.philosophy.peirce/12323
GF:http://web.archive.org/web/20140327140212/http://permalink.gmane.org/gmane.science.philosophy.peirce/12341
JA:http://web.archive.org/web/20140327140236/http://permalink.gmane.org/gmane.science.philosophy.peirce/12342
BU:http://web.archive.org/web/20140327202831/http://permalink.gmane.org/gmane.science.philosophy.peirce/12345
JA:http://web.archive.org/web/20140327203000/http://permalink.gmane.org/gmane.science.philosophy.peirce/12346
JND:http://web.archive.org/web/20140327203110/http://permalink.gmane.org/gmane.science.philosophy.peirce/12347
JA:http://web.archive.org/web/20140327203600/http://permalink.gmane.org/gmane.science.philosophy.peirce/12349
GF:http://web.archive.org/web/20140328184402/http://permalink.gmane.org/gmane.science.philosophy.peirce/12357
VNA:http://web.archive.org/web/20140328184603/http://permalink.gmane.org/gmane.science.philosophy.peirce/12358
GF:http://web.archive.org/web/20140328185204/http://permalink.gmane.org/gmane.science.philosophy.peirce/12366
VNA:http://web.archive.org/web/20140328185246/http://permalink.gmane.org/gmane.science.philosophy.peirce/12367
HR:http://web.archive.org/web/20140328180007/http://permalink.gmane.org/gmane.science.philosophy.peirce/12370
Peircers,
I've been trying to get back to this topic, but I'm running on weekend (weakened) levels
concentration right now, so I'll have to leave it at just a few remarks of a general nature.
I'm not clear on what all the controversy is about. I have the feeling that most of what I've said
at least would have been fairly unproblematic, even trite, a few years back when it seems that more
people were conversant with "process thinking" or "systems thinking" than appears to be the case of
late, whether they absorbed it by osmosis from their general scientific background (operationalism.
relativity, quantum mechanics, particle-wave duality, complementarity, etc.), from pragmatists like
James and Dewey even if they had barely a nominal acquaintance with Peirce, process thinkers like
Whitehead, eclectic synthesizers like Bucky Fuller (''I Seem To Be A Verb'') and Marshall McLuhan,
gestalt psychologists ranging from Köhler to Perls, or a host of other sources.
At any rate, I think it would make a good beginning toward understanding the full sense of the word
"object" to bear in mind the sense of the word that it takes to make sense of Peirce's 1861 motto:
| "No longer wondered what I would do in life but defined my object."
|
| -- C.S. Peirce (1861), "My Life", ''Writings'' v.1 p.3
Looking to the complex of meanings orbiting about the Greek word "pragma",
there is a felt sense
of a concernful situation, almost the cliché of a "tense drama" ...
Have to break here ...
Jon
Jon Awbrey wrote:
Peircers,
Recent discussions of "purpose" in semiotics remind me once more of a recurring
theme:
Jon Awbrey • 9 Sep 2011 • http://permalink.gmane.org/gmane.comp.inquiry/3713
Objects, Objectives, Objectivity
I am constantly reminded of this favorite line from Peirce:
"No longer wondered what I would do in life but defined my object."
-- C.S. Peirce (1861), "My Life", (Chron. Ed. 1, p. 3)
The question of Objects, Objectives, and Objectivity is a persistent one.
The Latin-rooted English "object" springs from deeper roots in the Greek
"pragma".
It was a personal revelation to me on first looking into Liddell and Scott and
reading all the meanings and ramifications of that pragmatic semantic complex:
http://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text?doc=Perseus%3Atext%3A1999.04.0057%3Aentry%3Dpra%3Dgma
It is especially the senses of the word "object" that refer to aims and
purposes,
in other words, intentional objects and objects of intention, that we are likely
to miss if we don't remind ourselves of their pertinence to pragmatic thinking.
Regards,
Jon
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