> On Mar 27, 2017, at 11:14 AM, Jon Alan Schmidt <[email protected]> > wrote: > > Does it help to amend the initial statement to form a subjunctive > conditional? "Therefore, the knowable universe is limited to everything we > would be able to imagine, if the right conditions were to occur." If so, is > this formulation still unobjectionable to a nominalist?
I’m not sure I’d agree with that reformulation simply because I think Peirce distinguishes between knowability and what individuals know. I guess you might wrap that up under “right conditions” but my complaint is more that the notion of continuity seems very wrapped up in Peirce’s project of knowability here. Things can in principle be knowable but simultaneously be unknowable for finite knowers.
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