> On Oct 27, 2015, at 10:16 AM, Stephen C. Rose <[email protected]> wrote: > > Randomness can hardly be meaningless if it also implies chance which for > Peirce mean First. I suppose I am missing something. Usually do. > > "... chance ... a mathematical term to express with accuracy the > characteristics of freedom or spontaneity." Peirce: CP 6.202
How are we using the word “meaning” in these discussions? It seems quite different from Peirce’s maxim which was his criteria of meaning. Or is it that while we can measure in some cases spontaneity in terms of its breadth (and thus a kind of meaning) but not the spontaneity in itself. That however seems uncomfortably close to the Kantian thing in itself which Peirce opposes. Add in to this that in at least some places Peirce sees consciousness as the inward phenomena of spontaneity. I suspect we just need to unpack carefully what it is we’re talking about.
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