Jon, If we adopt your methodology, I guess that in order to decode this message of yours, we need to look into the history of usage of the terms "probability", "statistics", "technical" and "distinction", as well as "term" and "look into"; and we have to make all of that history explicit before we dare to guess what you're talking about.
I think we have a better chance of understanding Peirce's particular usages of the terms "event" and "occurrence" by looking at the contexts in which he used them, including his purpose of contrasting them with the term "fact". We may guess wrong about what he means, at first - abductions are often wrong - but just as often, by continuing the dialogue, we can *learn* that they are wrong, and guess again. gary f. -----Original Message----- From: Jon Awbrey [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: 10-Oct-14 9:10 AM To: 'Peirce List' Cc: [email protected] Subject: [PEIRCE-L] Re: Natural Propositions, Chapter 3.8 Gary & All, Just off-hand, you might look into the way the term "event" is used in probability and statistics, and the technical distinction that is made between "event" and "occurrence". I'm pretty sure the terms have been used that way since Boole, at least, if not since the time of Fermat and Pascal. Regards, Jon Gary Fuhrman wrote: > Gary R, Clark, Stephen, lists, > > Clark, I can't comment on Davidson because I haven't read him. But as > for Peirce's usage of "event", it never occurred to me that it means > anything different than the usual vernacular meaning: an event is > something that actually happens. -- 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
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