Sung,
I rather admire Jon's sang-froid patience with you, advising you to read "The Fixation of Ideas", in order to learn about some of the things that Peirce said about BELIEF. But I don't feel like emulating Jon right now.
You've been sending comments to PEIRCE-L for some time now, but evidently you still have read very little of Peirce and are unwilling to buy either paper or electronic copy of The Essential Peirce http://www.iupress.indiana.edu/advanced_search_result.php?keywords=Peirce . I don't know why you won't do this, it's about as expensive as a couple of drinks and a bad movie, not far, far beyond the purchasing ability of the average professor.
Not only are there numerous articles by Peirce that you can read free online at Arisbehttp://www.iupui.edu/~arisbe/menu/library/bycsp/bycsp.htm <http://www.iupui.edu/%7Earisbe/menu/library/bycsp/bycsp.htm> , but also you are located in the U.S.A., which means that you can read all of Google Books' editions of Peirce's articles, pretty much all the philosophical articles published under Peirce's own name during his life http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_Sanders_Peirce_bibliography#Books_authored_or_edited_by_Peirce.2C_published_in_his_lifetime , keep scrolling down and you'll find links to very many articles.
Or are you a prank played on us by Alan Sokal http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sokal_affair (whom I rather admire)?
Best, Ben Sung, List, I have an early flight in the morning so just two notes: A precursor of Peirce's pragmatic maxim is Alexander Bain's definition of belief as that upon which a person is prepared to act. Also see Peirce's essay, “The Fixation of Belief”: http://www.iupui.edu/~arisbe/menu/library/bycsp/fixation/fx-frame.htm <http://www.iupui.edu/%7Earisbe/menu/library/bycsp/fixation/fx-frame.htm> I'm sure other listers can supply further detail. Regards, Jon http://inquiryintoinquiry.com On Mar 31, 2015, at 8:00 PM, Sungchul Ji <[email protected] <mailto:[email protected]>> wrote: On 3/31/2015 9:00 PM, Sungchul Ji wrote: Jon, you wrote: "Whether we view the Big Bang as a singular haecceity, a spontaneous occurrence, or simply inexplicable, our current beliefs about the origin of the universe have arisen through applications of the inquiry process progressing through the millennia from primitive to fully scientific forms. Tho se beliefs may change tomorrow afternoon or a hundred years from now as new evidence pops up or accumulates over time but if and when they do it will be through further applications of the same tradition of inquiry." What is interesting to me is that you mentioned "belief" twice in this statement. Did Peirce ever brought up "belief" in his discussions on semiosis or semiotics ? I ask this question because in the irreducible triadic diagram I use to represent the Peircean sign or semiosis, there is a room for the involvement of "belief" (I believe), as indicated below (see Step denoted as -h, the reverse of Step h): f g Object ------------------------ Sign ------------------ Interpretant (Origin of the Universe) (Osbervable Universe) (Big Bang theory) | ^ | | |____________________________________________| h Figure 1. Is "believing" an intrinsic part/component of semiosis ? f = natural process/feeling/'emotion' (e.g., cosmogenesis) g = mental process/'cognition' (leading to, e.g., the Big Bang theory) h = information flow (enabling humans to know reality) -h = believing or 'credition' All the best. Sung On Tue, Mar 31, 2015 at 8:00 PM, Jon Awbrey <[email protected] wrote:
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