And as gifted as he was, Peirce was also human. It pays to bear that in mind.
>"That means that no hypothesis should be ruled out in advance." I agree. But multiverse theory has been around for a while. It has been incorporated into the narrative and provided the basis for testing conjectures and viewpoints... it deserved to be aired, at least in the spirit of brainstorming. And in its failure to yield anything of substance, it has long exceeded its use-by date. But instead, it persists and continues to be taken seriously only because the credentialed keep breathing life into it. Credentialism, as a reflection of contemporary, progressive celebrity-culture, is quite different to authentic scholastic enquiry. Regards -----Original Message----- From: John F Sowa [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Friday, September 29, 2017 5:10 AM To: Peirce-L; Stephen Jarosek Subject: Re: [PEIRCE-L] RE: [Sadhu Sanga] Collapsing the wave function On 9/28/2017 7:18 AM, Stephen Jarosek wrote: > Multiverse theory is a symptom of intellectual desperation… a descent > into debating the number of angels on the head of a pin. Both of those lines are contrary to anything Peirce would have said or approved. Peirce's First Rule of Reason: "Do not block the way of inquiry." That means that no hypothesis should be ruled out in advance. It may be a dead end. Or maybe not. But sometimes the act of stating a bad hypothesis may suggest something better. Second line: The joke about "counting the number of angels on the head of a pin" was stated by ignorant people who were trying to ridicule Scholastic logic and philosophy. Peirce had a high regard for Scholastic logic, and he took pride in having the largest number of manuscripts on medieval logic in the Boston area. John
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