While this makes sense on one level, there is most certainly a basis for saying that Peirce says this and having that reference have a meaning that transcends all the barriers you cite. I am sure that a mathematician and I can agree that Peirce insists on matters such as the triadic form of thought, continuity and fallibility. Or the porous and ambient nature of "the individual". Cheers, S
*@stephencrose <https://twitter.com/stephencrose>* On Fri, Sep 12, 2014 at 11:41 PM, Jon Awbrey <[email protected]> wrote: > Peircers, > > From time to time I come to the realization that there are ways of reading > Peirce that make no sense to me. When I stop to think about the potential > sources of that evident divergence from common sense, the first thing that > comes to mind is the fact that people come to reading Peirce with so many > different aims, backgrounds, and collateral experiences with the objects > that he wraps his signs and ideas around. > > Thinking about that leads to all sorts of questions that I see no way of > beginning to address with any sense of coherence. All I can do is try to > give a good account of what makes sense to me and why. My experience with > failures to communicate over many trials tells me that the biggest and most > numerous rifts in our several understandings of Peirce all point back to > the visions of relations, triadic relations, and triadic sign relations > that dance in our various and sundry heads. > > So that is what I'll take up first ... > > 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 > . > > > > > >
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