(Sorry - been swamped so I’ve not said much) > On Apr 1, 2017, at 12:53 PM, John F Sowa <[email protected]> wrote: > > Some new words may be useful, but there's already an overabundance > of terminology from several millennia of philosophy, most of which > Peirce replaced with a new set of terms. That is the theme of the > following article:
This seems quite true. My experience in trying to explain Peirce to people with a philosophical background is that the terminology is a big barrier. I understand why Peirce coined so many neologisms but it isn’t ultimately a good thing in many ways. > On Apr 1, 2017, at 8:38 AM, Stephen Jarosek <[email protected]> wrote: > > I am 100% with you on this. I just did a synonym search on imitation, without > luck. I think we need to invent a new word to more accurately describe this > replication and sharing of signs/behavior. While it’s not exactly the same thing, the existing word of meme is probably close enough to do the job. I don’t think we need a new word. > On Mar 31, 2017, at 2:18 PM, Jeffrey Brian Downard <[email protected]> > wrote: > > With the aim of sharpening the point, Peirce seems to suggest that, for the > sake of explaining the cosmos, it is important to ask how degenerate forms of > these relations might have grown into more genuine forms of the relations. As I’ve noted a few times, Peirce’s explanations largely come from neoplatonism. That’s of course a pretty controversial position to say the least. I’m also not quite convinced that his cosmology is really necessary for the rest of his thought. It’s enough to simply talk about acquiring habits and leave the cosmology there. The degenerate forms become genuine as habits enabling that genuineness arise.
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