Matt: Scientific facts are in opposition to your conclusion.
Cheers jerry On Jun 14, 2014, at 5:11 PM, Matt Faunce wrote: > Stephen, It appeared to me that you had hijacked the term "pragmaticism", and > I still think you might have. Peirce was an idealist, and the idea that 'we > are reality,' if "we" means those of us whose essence is our mind, is a > cornerstone of pragmaticism. In this sense there never was a reality before > we came into being and there would be no reality after us. > The Buddhist logicians Dignaga and Dharmakirti, who were objective > idealists, concluded that there could never have been a before "us" and there > will never be an after us. I came to see things their way. (Although I was > warned that my source, the translations and explanations by Th. Stcherbatsky, > circa 1932, are too "post-Kantian".) I'm not sure what Peirce thought of the > time before us but I suspect he agreed with the Buddhist logicians. > > Matt > > On Jun 13, 2014, at 10:51 PM, "Stephen C. Rose" <[email protected]> wrote: > >> "All people" is my definition of "we" in the following statement: "We are >> inevitably social. We are capable of achieving a sense of universality. This >> universal sense distinguishes Triadic Philosophy." Triadic philosophy >> regards most accepted divisions among human beings as secondary to a >> fundamental unity which transcends them all. >> >> @stephencrose >> >> >> On Fri, Jun 13, 2014 at 9:38 PM, Matt Faunce <[email protected]> wrote: >> Stephen, please define "we" as you used the word below. >> >> Matt >> >> On Jun 12, 2014, at 5:10 PM, "Stephen C. Rose" <[email protected]> wrote: >> >>> Triadic Philosophy honors Peirce by claiming that it is a tiny offshoot of >>> what he came to mean by the term pragmaticism. This term was his evolution >>> of pragmatism. Pragmaticism is a bastion against the dominant notion that >>> we are all reality is. We are not all of reality. Our individual >>> perceptions are not all reality. Before we are, reality is. After we are, >>> reality remains. Pragmaticism opens the door to a metaphysics based >>> precisely on the premise that by our fruits we shall be known. It is a now >>> metaphysics. It proves out. It is not supposition. >>> >>> We are inevitably social. We are capable of achieving a sense of >>> universality. This universal sense distinguishes Triadic Philosophy. >>> >>> >>> >> >> >> ----------------------------- >> PEIRCE-L subscribers: Click on "Reply List" or "Reply All" to REPLY ON >> PEIRCE-L to this message. PEIRCE-L posts should go to >> [email protected] . To UNSUBSCRIBE, send a message not to PEIRCE-L but >> to [email protected] with the line "UNSubscribe PEIRCE-L" in the BODY of >> the message. More at http://www.cspeirce.com/peirce-l/peirce-l.htm . >> >> >> >> >> >> > > ----------------------------- > PEIRCE-L subscribers: Click on "Reply List" or "Reply All" to REPLY ON > PEIRCE-L to this message. PEIRCE-L posts should go to [email protected] > . To UNSUBSCRIBE, send a message not to PEIRCE-L but to [email protected] > with the line "UNSubscribe PEIRCE-L" in the BODY of the message. More at > http://www.cspeirce.com/peirce-l/peirce-l.htm . > > > >
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