Good heavens, Helmut, what a contrary mixture of beliefs you hold! "left wing anarchist liberal communist feminist anticapitalist antifashist".......Anarchy in its nature opposes communism, fascism and liberalism. But being left wing promotes communism and fascism. Liberalism promotes capitalism. And anti-authority rejects Peircean Thirdness and Mind.
Edwina ----- Original Message ----- From: Helmut Raulien To: [email protected] Sent: Friday, December 26, 2014 5:42 PM Subject: Aw: [PEIRCE-L] Re: Pragmatic Cosmos Hi! I do not think, that my point of view or my argumentation has anything to do with celestial spheres or bearded father figures. I am a left wing anarchist liberal communist feminist anticapitalist antifashist and so on. I am against any authorority, except the authority of God. And, what this is, I am trying to find out. Best, Helmut. "Jon Awbrey" <[email protected]>An: "Peirce List" <[email protected]> wrote: Jeff, Sung, Helmut, List, It is only human of human beings to project their affairs on celestial spheres but doing so does not alter the circumstance that we project our own images from anthropic centers. There are times when our projections hit the mark. And there are times when we end up imagining the universe compassed by Bearded Father Figures (BFFs). Speculative projections require critical reflection to sift the reality from the fantasy. I am mainly concerned with inquiry as a form of human conduct, a practical activity carried on by individuals and communities, increasingly supported by the tools our species of tool-makers has evolved and learned to make. Thus I view inquiry stereoscopically, from two distinct angles, descriptive and instrumental. On the descriptive side, Peirce's work on relations in general and sign relations in particular gives us, perhaps for the first time in history, a paradigm of theoretical models adequate to the task of describing inquiry. The category theory developed by mathematicians has many applications in describing the functions and structures of inquiry, especially if the potential generalizations of category theory to handle relations in their own terms can be realized. On the instrumental side, we have the task of engineering software that can better aid inquiry. Building instruments to extend our capacities in any realm requires a model of the organon that nature gave us, and so we "prime the pump" of the instrumental task by knowing ourselves first. Given that start, the cycle of amplification can begin. Regards, 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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