John, Great stuff.
There is a huge amount of information that Kant was wrong about these things. Someone today mentioned Michael Polyani’s work on personal knowledge/tacit knowledge. And, at the risk of being a bore, there is my book, Dark Matter of the Mind: https://www.amazon.com/Dark-Matter-Mind-Articulated-Unconscious/dp/022607076X <https://www.amazon.com/Dark-Matter-Mind-Articulated-Unconscious/dp/022607076X>, in which I survey a lot of the literature, proposing my own theories (not as much interaction with Peirce as there should have been, I am sure). There is also a point that Kant missed entirely and that Peirce had little chance to observe: cross-cultural variation. Dan > On Apr 8, 2019, at 11:17 AM, John F Sowa <[email protected]> wrote: > > This morning, I remembered some case studies of people who were > blind from early childhood and later recovered their sight. > > Those studies cast doubt on Kant's claim that people have a > complete innate theory of space and time. The brain may have > innate structure that facilitates learning about space and time, > but a lot of experience is necessary to fill in the details. > > For example, Sydney Bradford lost his sight at age 10 months, > went to a school for the blind, and had a successful career > as a machinist. He lived independently, could make his way > through traffic, and took public transportation to work. > > Then at age 52, he had an operation that restored his sight. > Instead of being a confident, independent blind man, he became > a fearful, depressed man, who was terrified of crossing a street > in traffic, even with a friend holding his arm. > > For a Wikipedia article about Sydney B. and others, see > https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Recovery_from_blindness > > For a 44-page article with much more detail about SB, see > http://www.richardgregory.org/papers/recovery_blind/recovery-from-early-blindness.pdf > > By the way, that site has links to other articles by Richard G. > For example, see the attached "impossible" figure. But it's > possible to construct an actual 3D object that looks like that. > See the article > http://www.richardgregory.org/papers/brainmodels/illusions-and-brain-models_all.htm > > Peirce wrote a lot about illusions, and he would have loved to see > that object. It has implications about form, index, and percepts. > > John > <impossible.gif> > ----------------------------- > 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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