John, List, I have personally always understood “saving the phenomena” to mean preserving the appearances, that is, whatever explanation we come up with must leave the appearances invariant.
I remember reading somewhere that the Greek “sozein” could mean either save or solve. I thought it was Ian Hacking but not sure. Poking around the web for it did turn up this historical comment: https://thonyc.wordpress.com/2015/07/29/%CF%83%E1%BF%B4%CE%B6%CE%B5%CE%B9%CE%BD-%CF%84%E1%BD%B0-%CF%86%CE%B1%CE%B9%CE%BD%CF%8C%CE%BC%CE%B5%CE%BD%CE%B1-sozein-ta-phainomena/ Regards, Jon On 12/13/2015 5:28 AM, John Collier wrote:
Peirce List, Here is a link to a Peirce influenced paper that makes the basic point Matt has made here. It is based on work in my PhD dissertation that I am in the process of redoing 30-some years later to deal with problems of continuity of knowledge through radical theory change (and across different discourses and cultures, for that matter). There was some brief attention to that work at the time, but I was already working with biologists on an information dynamics approach to self-organization in evolution, and I set it aside. My co-author on the paper is a former student of mine who is one of the few to maintain and interest in the issues, though he is making his name more in the cognitive science of religion and superstition these days. * Saving the distinctions: Distinctions as the epistemologically significant content of experience<http://bacon.umcs.lublin.pl/~ktalmont/pdf/Save%20distinctions.pdf> (2004, with Konrad Talmont-Kaminski) The title is a sideways reference to “saving the phenomena” as used by Bas van Fraassen, who seems to have got it from Duhem. John Collier Professor Emeritus, UKZN http://web.ncf.ca/collier
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