I am sure it may be wrong to post this. My reason is that the closing quote below is so common and often lacks the context of the surrounding words. So I will risk repetition anyway. The more I read, the more I think that C. P. really did mean to confine things as suggested in the final sentence below and that the rest is ...
"Aristotle builded upon a few deliberately chosen concepts -- such as matter and form, act and power -- very broad, and in their outlines vague and rough, but solid, unshakable, and not easily undermined; and thence it has come to pass that Aristotelianism is babbled in every nursery, that "English Common Sense," for example, is thoroughly peripatetic, and that ordinary men live so completely within the house of the Stagyrite that whatever they see out of the windows appears to them incomprehensible and metaphysical. Long it has been only too manifest that, fondly habituated though we be to it, the old structure will not do for modern needs; and accordingly, under Descartes, Hobbes, Kant, and others, repairs, alterations, and partial demolitions have been carried on for the last three centuries. One system, also, stands upon its own ground; I mean the new Schelling-Hegel mansion, lately run up in the German taste, but with such oversights in its construction that, although brand new, it is already pronounced uninhabitable. The undertaking which this volume inaugurates is to make a philosophy like that of Aristotle, that is to say, to outline a theory so comprehensive that, for a long time to come, the entire work of human reason, in philosophy of every school and kind, in mathematics, in psychology, in physical science, in history, in sociology, and in whatever other department there may be, shall appear as the filling up of its details. The first step toward this is to find simple concepts applicable to every subject." †2 Peirce: CP 1.2 Cross-Ref:†† *@stephencrose <https://twitter.com/stephencrose>* On Sat, Jul 5, 2014 at 11:54 AM, Jon Awbrey <jawb...@att.net> wrote: > Post : Doubt, Uncertainty, Dispersion, Entropy : 2 > http://inquiryintoinquiry.com/2014/07/05/doubt-uncertainty- > dispersion-entropy-2/ > Posted : July 5, 2014 at 11:30 am > Author : Jon Awbrey > > Peircers, > > Yet another bit of e-synchronicity ... > (or maybe a-synchronicity ???) > > Re:John Baez • Entropy and Information in Biological Systems > At:http://johncarlosbaez.wordpress.com/2014/07/04/ > entropy-and-information-in-biological-systems-part-2/ > > Re: ''To develop the concept of evolutionary games as “learning” processes > in which information is gained over time.'' > > My customary recommendation on this point is to look more deeply into the > work of C.S. Peirce on the themes of evolution, inquiry, and their > interaction. Peirce stands out as one of the few pioneers in the study of > scientific method who managed to avoid the dead-ends of naive deductivisim > and naive inductivisim. He developed Aristotle’s concept of abductive > reasoning in a way that anticipated later insights into the dynamics of > paradigm shifts. A question worth exploring in this connection is whether > abductive hypothesis formation is the analogue within scientific method of > random mutation. > > -- > > academia: http://independent.academia.edu/JonAwbrey > my word press blog: http://inquiryintoinquiry.com/ > inquiry list: http://stderr.org/pipermail/inquiry/ > isw: http://intersci.ss.uci.edu/wiki/index.php/JLA > oeiswiki: http://www.oeis.org/wiki/User:Jon_Awbrey > facebook page: https://www.facebook.com/JonnyCache > > > ----------------------------- > PEIRCE-L subscribers: Click on "Reply List" or "Reply All" to REPLY ON > PEIRCE-L to this message. PEIRCE-L posts should go to > peirce-L@list.iupui.edu . To UNSUBSCRIBE, send a message not to PEIRCE-L > but to l...@list.iupui.edu 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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