“And if we want to explain the laws, there needs to be some history, some process of evolution, some dynamics by which laws change.”
Or — Meta-laws are just laws. Jon http://inquiryintoinquiry.com > On Mar 20, 2015, at 5:47 PM, Gary Richmond <[email protected]> wrote: > > Jon wrote: > > So laws have higher laws > on their backs to smite them ... > > A pretty piece of poetry. But please state this in simple English so that > we'll know exactly what you're saying. > > 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 Fri, Mar 20, 2015 at 5:42 PM, Jon Awbrey <[email protected]> wrote: >> Re: Ben Udell >> At: http://permalink.gmane.org/gmane.science.philosophy.peirce/15898 >> >> BU: "Who knows how much more radical the change and evolution may be? >> >> Ben, List, >> >> I thought this was always clear, but just to underline the point: >> It is always possible to imagine or invent extremely radical forms >> of change and evolution affecting the laws in force from time to time, >> but neither Peirce nor Smolin is doing that, and such artifices would >> violate Peirce's assumption of continuity. So laws have higher laws >> on their backs to smite them ... >> >> 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 . >
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