Edwina, Jon, list, A friend of mine, a Peirce scholar not currently in this forum, just happened to include this comment in a personal note. I thought it had some relevance.
To the extent that humans are not taught to be creative, they will be destructive (even if only by default; even doing nothing is destructive, or leads to decline). Best, Gary *Gary Richmond* *Philosophy and Critical Thinking* *Communication Studies* *LaGuardia College of the City University of New York* *C 745* *718 482-5690* On Mon, Sep 1, 2014 at 4:00 PM, Edwina Taborsky <[email protected]> wrote: > You are playing games with us, Jon! You haven't said WHY you consider > that people 'prefer falsity to truth, illusion to reality'. > > And I don't agree with your conclusion, for it carries within it an > assumption that truth and reality are unpleasant. Are they? > > What about - the fact (truth, reality) that our species has the greatest > capacity of all living organisms to 'imagine' the world. That capacity for > imagination enables man to invent - something that animals, for the most > part, have little capacity to do. Rather than waiting for evolution to > develop wings, man imagines flying and invents the airplane. And email > and.... > > And in his capacity for invention, man must deal with truth and reality. > Or, the plane won't fly and the computer won't exist or work. > > So, aren't we a combination of both? And thus, don't we require both? > > Edwina > > ----- Original Message ----- From: "Jon Awbrey" <[email protected]> > To: "Peirce List 1" <[email protected]> > Sent: Monday, September 01, 2014 3:50 PM > Subject: [PEIRCE-L] Q. Why is there so much falsity in the world? > > > A. Because people prefer falsity to truth, illusion to reality. >> >> ⁂ >> >> Being the drift of my reflections on the plays I saw at Stratford this >> summer — >> King Lear, King John, Man of La Mancha, Alice Through the Looking-Glass, >> Crazy for You, Hay Fever. >> >> ⁂ >> >> The Beaux’ Stratagem • Masks, Madness, & Shakespeare's Sonnets • Anthony >> and Cleopatra >> >> ⁂ >> >> http://web.archive.org/web/20140730150000/http://www. >> stratfordfestival.ca/mobile/plays.aspx?id=63 >> http://web.archive.org/web/20140901185642/http://www. >> stratfordfestival.ca/forum/showcases.aspx?id=20472 >> >> ⁂ >> >> The obligatory report on What I Did This Summer, >> but not unrelated to pressing problems of logic. >> >> Cheers, >> >> Jon >> >> -- >> >> 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 >> [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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