Jon
Yes it is both efficient and final causation and how they are related. I do
know Peirce has several papers on that. But still how does it relate to the
world as we know it today? Or rather how can we make a postmodern
transdisciplinary framework that allows us to combine them?
Søren
From: Jon Alan Schmidt [mailto:[email protected]]
Sent: 21. oktober 2016 17:59
To: Jerry LR Chandler
Cc: Peirce List
Subject: Re: [PEIRCE-L] Universes and Categories (was Peirce's Cosmology)
Jerry C., List:
JC: Would it be fair to say that you seek to understand how CSP’s writings
relate to scientific causality?
By "scientific causality," do you mean efficient causality (i.e., brute
reactions), final causality (i.e., laws of nature), both, or something else
altogether?
JC: I think it is fair to ask if Jon’s views on engineering wrt CSP writings
are typical of modern engineering disciplines, such as chemical engineering and
molecular-biological engineering in which specific causal processes must be
arranged from the body of scientific information (chemical / biological)
available.
My discipline is structural engineering, in which most of the relevant causal
processes and corresponding diagrammatic representational system rules are
quite well-established. I would welcome feedback on whether and how my "logic
of ingenuity" thesis is applicable to other fields of engineering, especially
those in which this is not (yet) the case.
Regards,
Jon Alan Schmidt - Olathe, Kansas, USA
Professional Engineer, Amateur Philosopher, Lutheran Layman
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On Fri, Oct 21, 2016 at 10:20 AM, Jerry LR Chandler
<[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>> wrote:
Soren:
Would it be fair to say that you seek to understand how CSP’s writings relate
to scientific causality?
I think it is fair to ask if Jon’s views on engineering wrt CSP writings are
typical of modern engineering disciplines, such as chemical engineering and
molecular-biological engineering in which specific causal processes must be
arranged from the body of scientific information (chemical / biological)
available. Within the professions, these are referred to a “scale-up”
problems. Or, otherwise as “from the lab-bench to production”.
BTW, Soren, on a personal note and in reference to an earlier exchange here
(2014?) on the role of electricity in bio-cybernetics / biosemiotics, I have
just finished writing a paper -An Introduction to the Foundations of Chemical
Information Theory. Tarski – Lesniewski Logical Structures and the Organization
of Natural Sorts and Kinds.
Indirectly, it draws on certain aspects of CSP logic, as well as the views of
M. Malatesta’s on meta-languages. But, it focuses the meaning of quanta of
electricity and the relations to symmetry. It will be submitted for
publication after colleagues have provided comments.
Cheers
Jerry
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