> On May 18, 2016, at 4:46 PM, Jerry Rhee <[email protected]> wrote: > > That's yet another reason to start at the and not but or hence...
Not quite sure what you mean by that. BTW - regarding one of the quotes you had. Circa 1897, Peirce wrote this: The development of my ideas…but of course it is not I who have to pass judgment. It is not quite you, either, individual reader: it is experience and history (1.12). I’ve been intrigued by discussion of middle voice and the philosophical use of this grammar that is in some languages (not English). It’s a big deal in Heidegger & Gadamer for instance as well as certain parts of scholastic philosophy. (It became significant there as Latin doesn’t have middle voice but Greek does which led to issues dealing with Greek texts) The middle voice is interesting as it’s between the active and the passive and thus blurs many traditional distinctions between object and subject in some ways. When Peirce almost reifies experience I think he’s making a similar move. So far as I know no one’s really written much on that, unlike the other figures. Reflexive plurals have some interesting connection to aspects of Peirce’s thought - especially aspects of his externalism in signs. I think that his notion of experience and likely Dewey’s as well falls into this sort of analysis. (With regards to Dewey and experience people have discussed the place of middle voice, or rather Dewey’s lack of using it) For Dewey to have an experience is to already be in a web of relations and a background of practices, aims, and consequences. Thus action is always more akin to biology in its complexity and weblike nature. While Peirce doesn’t usually push this quite the way Dewey does, I think his semiotics ends up in a similar sort of place. (Only with a far superior logic to Dewey’s)
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