Jon - please leave me out of this 'discussion' of nominalism and realism.
The descriptions being put forth recently on this list are, in my view, so
substantially distorted and invalid - that I prefer to stay out of it. I
won't even comment on the basic errors of definition between the two terms
much less the misuse of the Peircean categories.
And I thought the discussion was between nominalism and realism, not
nominalism and essentialism. Realism and essentialism are not, to my
understanding, exact synonyms of each other.
Edwina
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From: "Jon Awbrey" <[email protected]>
To: "Peirce List" <[email protected]>
Sent: Friday, August 07, 2015 10:45 AM
Subject: [PEIRCE-L] Re: Zeroth Law Of Semiotics
Edwina, Markku, Mary, Sung, Tom, List ...
It may be a day or two before I can get back to the
"Zeroth Law of Semiotics" and how grasping it cures
a strain of ills that language and some fashions of
logic are heir to, but on the subject of nominalism
I found a summary of a previous discussion that may
say some things better than I have this time around.
Nominalism and Essentialism are the Scylla and Charybdis
that Pragmatism Must Navigate Its Middle Way Between
http://wp.me/p24Ixw-ha
or
http://inquiryintoinquiry.com/2012/09/21/nominalism-and-essentialism-are-the-scylla-and-charybdis-that-pragmatism-must-navigate-its-middle-way-between/
Regards,
Jon
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