OK, I'm getting a little overwhelmed here. One question.
On 10/6/15 10:05 PM, Edwina Taborsky wrote:
4) If you accept Peirce's final-opinion then this akwardness comes
with it:
"At first it seems no doubt a paradoxical statement that, “the
object of final belief which exists only in consequence of the
belief, should itself produce the belief”; but their have been
a great many instances in which we have adopted a conception
of existence similar to this. The object of the belief exists
it is true, only because the belief exists; but this is not
the same as to say that it begins to exist first when the
belief begins to exist." (W.3:57, 1873) (I took this quote
from Mayorga pg. 97)
Perhaps Margolis shows a less maladroit way.
EDWINA: The way I read the above is that the 'object of the
belief' does indeed, in a way, 'produce that final belief' because
the object, which exists independently of me, rests in a truth.
Therefore, if the object is water, then, the truthful belief that
it is made up of a mixture of various chemicals (hydrogen and
oxygen) is indeed produced by the factual truth of that object.
You left out the most perplexing part, viz., "which exists only in
consequence of the belief".
Matt
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