Gary, John, List John I will be less severe than you and perhaps more pragmatic and "virile"( 😉) considering that this verbiage that does not seem to have the function of "block the way of inquiry" has another - perhaps worse - that is to "drown the way of inquiry" ... in doing so it tests the robustness of theories and probably contributes positively in the end to natural selection... but "in fine" it can be very far and we know that eternity is very long, especially towards the end .... . I also noted the strategies of cuckoo (large eggs on the threads) and that of squid (cloud of quotes fleeing) ...... Best, Robert
Le mer. 13 mai 2020 à 17:52, John F. Sowa <[email protected]> a écrit : > Gary, > > That is the most anti-Peircean statement imaginable: > > GR> It would once again appear that Edwina and John expect everyone to > have always and only the same interests as they do. Edwina, for > example, characterizes anything else, notably, theorizing, as "an > irrelevant exercise" undertaken only by people who "prefer the isolation > and comfort of what [she calls] 'the seminar room'. . . far, far, far from > the real empirical objective world." Well, that's her opinion. I, for one, > do not share it. > > Theorizing is absolutely esssential for understanding anything. But > Peirce insisted that any theory that has any claim to be scientific must be > exhaustively tested against observations. And that most definitely > includes his categories, which depend on the most careful possible testing > against "experiences in the phaneron". > > You cannot understand anything Peirce wrote unless you repeat the kind of > disciplined testing that he did in developing and revising his theories. > Just quoting Peirce without repeating his very careful methods of analysis > and testing produces nothing but superficial verbiage. > > John >
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