> On Jun 9, 2016, at 1:21 PM, Gary Richmond <[email protected]> wrote: > > Clark, List, > > Interesting post. And also: The entire universe > <https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Universe> is perfused with signs, if it is not > composed exclusively of signs <https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Sign>. > > I too very much admire Kelly Parker's book, while I agree that it has some > problems. Or should I say, it has been superseded and/or corrected in certain > topics by scholarship since it was published (1998). Kelly (who btw, is a > terrific fellow) is very ecologically minded as you no doubt know, seems to > have turned his attention to Royce. However, I haven't followed him very far > in that direction.
I should probably add that with Peirce we also need to distinguish between what exists from what is real. Again in nominalistic systems of thought they often are tied very closely together. One can see this aspect of Peirce’s thought with his conception of God where God is real but not actual. I confess I have trouble with that sort of conception of religion, but it undeniably shows off the sorts of distinctions Peirce carefully makes. (That notion of God can especially be seen in “A Neglected Argument." Peirce is careful with his definitions and often they don’t quite line up with the expectations we might bring from traditional philosophy. Even where one might disagree with Peirce I think there’s usually a good reason for why he takes the terminology he does.
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