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.
>>> 
>>> 
>>> 
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