List: > On Jul 27, 2020, at 11:14 AM, John F. Sowa <s...@bestweb.net> wrote: > > Therefore, it's essential to consider developments during the century > *after* Peirce in order to understand Peirce's early versions of those ideas.
I agree. Yes, it is essential. To consider both the areas (domains) where his genius is evident and those where it was not. I consider two examples. The conceptualizations of the natural sciences has diverged with the experimental demonstration of the “atomic numbers” as compositions of electrical particles, a nucleus with a positive charge and an electro-neutralizing set of negative charges. The count of these two different types of matter are the same, despite the deeply different forms and information content. Nevertheless, the handedness of organic molecules (exactly composed from the same set of elements) exists AND the left-handed and right-handed forms are otherwise physically identical. To what extent do CSP’s writings lead the naive mathematician/scientist down a path of falsehoods about the nature of continuity? See: 2.119-2.143 It is also essential to conjecture about the current writings in modern mathematics. In what sense is modern mathematics relevant to Peircean realism? Earlier today was was studying J. Conway’s book on Game Theory. This genius boldly embeds his beliefs about surrealism ( surrealistic number theory) in metaphors of time and temperature! Fantastic imaginary icons for number symbols! To what extent do CSP’s writings lead to attributing indices of time and temperature to the icons, rhema , and dicisigns to construct propositional mathematical arguments? I, for one, would not hold CSP accountable for such trends in metaphoric mathematics! Cheers Jerry
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