Dear list: I should narrow down my question:
For what reasons should a scientist, who believes in the realness of natural laws, also value that of absolute chance? Are there any examples? Best, Jerry R On Mon, Dec 5, 2016 at 11:38 AM, Jerry Rhee <[email protected]> wrote: > Dear John, list: > > Would anyone care to share their thoughts on what is meant by Absolute > Chance? > > Thanks in advance, > Jerry R > > On Mon, Dec 5, 2016 at 11:31 AM, Clark Goble <[email protected]> wrote: > >> >> On Dec 5, 2016, at 7:05 AM, John F Sowa <[email protected]> wrote: >> >> On 11/29/2016 2:57 PM, Clark Goble wrote: >> >> Treating thirdness as something real in the universe independent >> of what any particular person thinks about it is key. >> >> >> That is not a new point. Scientists have always assumed that the >> laws of nature are "really real". >> >> >> It’s a major point but not an universal one. Especially among physicists >> Feynman’s loose adoption of a kind of instrumentalism was influential. So >> it wasn’t just Mach or certain aspects of the positivists. Of course most >> physicists who haven’t studied any philosophy end up with an incoherent >> mess of views on the nature of physical laws. Sometimes a realist, >> sometimes an idealist, sometimes a Feynman like denial that anything >> matters but calculating. At least in my experience with physicists. >> (Chemists are somewhat different due to a more practical field) >> >> However I think what Peirce did differently was in thinking of the laws >> of physics in terms of thirdness. I don’t think most others - even those >> who were realists about law - put them in quite that formulation. (If only >> because few thought of things in those terms) >> >> >> >> >> ----------------------------- >> 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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