Edwina, All ...
Well, y'know, these days we have
Die Hard Nominalists (DHNs) and
Dunning-Kruger Nominalists (DKNs),
the latter being too nominalist
to know they are nominalists.
I wasn't recommending any form of nominalism, only that:
“full corpus reading of Peirce's technical works placing
them in the context of mathematical developments, indeed
revolutions, already proceeding full tilt when he joined
the fray, to which he added many more shots heard 'round
the world, as fortune would have it all but forgotten in
the years of reactionary nominalism that followed in the
aftermath, as it were”
I have no beef or vegan equivalent with poring through
the inédits and / or ineditables of Peirce's Nachlass —
been there done that in a former life when I spent two
years in the media library at Michigan State reeling my
days away with the microfilm edition hunting the answer
to some dark mystery concealed in one of his paragraphs.
But that kind of nose-to-the-grindstone reading provides
but a fraction of the raw material needed to understand
what in the world he was talking about, I say, *about*.
Regards,
Jon
On 6/13/2020 9:47 AM, Edwina Taborsky wrote:
Jon,list
Yes, I do think you are right to make such a differentiation.
Names don't matter...
But I think that any 'corpus literalism' whether early or late, runs
the risk of moving into conceptualism/nominalism, using the text as
the 'reality' rather than the objective world about which he wrote -
as the reality.
And as you say - the revolutions in thought - which I agree with you
were already active - were an integral part of Peirce's full corpus,
and his theories, in my view, fit well into these movements, which
include quantum theory, complex dynamics, molecular biology, and
societal and economic complex dynamics etc.
Edwina
On Sat 13/06/20 9:04 AM , Jon Awbrey [email protected] sent:
Edwina, Robert, Peirce List ...
I think we have to distinguish “late corpus literalism” —
I'll let that go till I find a better name for it — from
“full corpus reading of Peirce's technical works placing
them in the context of mathematical developments, indeed
revolutions, already proceeding full tilt when he joined
the fray, to which he added many more shots heard 'round
the world, as fortune would have it all but forgotten in
the years of reactionary nominalism that followed in the
aftermath, as it were” — I'll let that go until I find a
better name for it.
Regards,
Jon
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