List: This citation is not complete nonsense. “Precision” is a word related to measurement. The issue at a deeper level was resolved by Tarski in the 1930s. Every logical language requires a meta-language. CSP was challenged by the relative lexical fields of math, physics, and chemistry. IMHO Jerry
Sent from my iPhone > On Jul 17, 2018, at 11:52 AM, [email protected] wrote: > > Peirceans, > > My transcription of Lowell Lecture 7 of 1903 is now available at the SPIN > site, > https://www.fromthepage.com/jeffdown1/c-s-peirce-manuscripts/ms-473-474-1903-lowell-lecture-vii > , and has been added to the series on my website, at > http://gnusystems.ca/Lowell7.htm. This one is all about inductive reasoning. > Again I don’t plan to serialize it on the list, as I did with the first three > lectures, but any discussion of it is welcome. Here’s a sample paragraph: > > [[ The second order of induction only infers that a theory is very much like > the truth, because we are so far from ever being authorized to conclude that > a theory is the very truth itself, that we can never so much as understand > what that means. Light is electro-magnetic vibrations; that is to say, it > [is] something very like that. In order to say that it is precisely that, we > should have to know precisely what we mean by electro-magnetic vibrations. > Now we never can know precisely what we mean by any description whatever. ] > MS 473 CSP 60-2 ] > > Gary f. > > } The child finds its mother when it leaves her womb. [Tagore] { > http://gnusystems.ca/wp/ }{ Turning Signs gateway > > > > ----------------------------- > 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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