Thank you for all your feedback and suggested readings. I will take a look over the week-end and get back to you.
My very best, Margaretha H. On Thu, Oct 7, 2021 at 11:54 AM Martin W. Kettelhut <mkettel...@msn.com> wrote: > Dear Edwina and Margaretha, > > Having acknowledged similarities between Popper and Peirce, we must reckon > with the fact that Popper is a proud nominalist, whereas Peirce is a > thorough-going realist. There are many implications, not the least of which > is that Popper dismisses truth in the long run; he says that all we’ve got > is truth in a certain context (like a chemistry lab, or an atomic > accelerator). Popper is afraid that a realist commitment to truth = > closedness, or truth-with-an-agenda. Unlike Peirce, Popper could not > negotiate generality or continuity. > > Martin W. Kettelhut, PhD > > On 7 Oct 2021, at 8:11 AM, Edwina Taborsky <tabor...@primus.ca> wrote: > > 2] I have used Popper to compare with Peirce - I think that Popper's > Third World has strong comparisons with Peirce's Thirdness….he even sets > it up as analogous with the biological realm of knowledge. [See his > Objective Knowledge]. And I think that Popper's emphasis on openness, as in > The Open Society, where he rejects historicism and destiny for an > essentially open and unknown complexity of interactions -- is similar to > Peirce. That is, Popper accepts chance and reason as correlates [Firstness > and Thirdness] in the development of a society. > > > Responding to > > On Thu 07/10/21 9:48 AM , Margaretha Hendrickx mahe3...@gmail.com sent: > > List, > > How many of you are working on -- or interested in -- studying the > connection between the philosophy of Karl Popper and Charles Peirce? > > > >
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