Thanks Clark for putting that odd Carus quote in context and for your clarififying words that follow, particularly your description of thirdness. In my own thinking I see this final stage as action and expression which means essentially that Peirce moves us from what used to be called transcendent to the here and now.
Books http://buff.ly/15GfdqU On Tue, Nov 29, 2016 at 11:42 AM, Clark Goble <[email protected]> wrote: > > On Nov 28, 2016, at 8:29 PM, Jerry Rhee <[email protected]> wrote: > > “I look upon Mr. Peirce as an extreme nominalist, or, if he prefers it, as > a nominal realist soaked with nominalistic opinions. He professes to be a > realist, but he rescinds the foundation of realism. Like the bear of the > hermit Mr. Peirce throws the stone at the fly of necessary connection, and > in doing so kills the philosophy of realism itself... > > In summing up the result of the whole battle, we find that there is not a > single question on which we have to yield or even modify our position. Our > position remains the same, while Mr. Peirce's position has become glaringly > untenable.” > ~Paul Carus, Monist, 1893, > > > Not sure how that relates to the other discussion but one should note that > in the 1890’s Peirce shifted from a moderate realist largely following Duns > Scotus to a stronger realist largely on the basis of how he considered > thirdness ontologically. So a quote from 1893 is almost certainly in > reference to his moderate realist phase. > > I should add that even with either the Scotus styled moderate realism or > the stronger realism that took thirdness as fully mind independent, that > Peirce and Dewey did route a third way between the extremes of realism and > idealism. That continued through the idealist/realist debates up to around > the post war period when positivism and analytic philosophy became dominate. > > > > > ----------------------------- > PEIRCE-L subscribers: Click on "Reply List" or "Reply All" to REPLY ON > PEIRCE-L to this message. PEIRCE-L posts should go to > [email protected] . To UNSUBSCRIBE, send a message not to PEIRCE-L > but to [email protected] with the line "UNSubscribe PEIRCE-L" in the > BODY of the message. More at http://www.cspeirce.com/peirce-l/peirce-l.htm > . > > > > > >
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