Sally & All,
Some of us are slower readers than others ...
To tell the truth, I haven't been having much time to do more than skim,
so let me just mention a few thoughts that come to mind while doing that.
I am constantly reminded of this favorite line from Peirce:
"No longer wondered what I would do in life but defined my object."
-- C.S. Peirce (1861), "My Life", (Chron. Ed. 1, p. 3)
The question of Objects, Objectives, and Objectivity is a persistent one.
The Latin-rooted English "object" springs from deeper roots in the Greek
"pragma".
It was a personal revelation to me on first looking into Liddell and Scott and
reading all the meanings and ramifications of that pragmatic semantic complex:
http://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text?doc=Perseus%3Atext%3A1999.04.0057%3Aentry%3Dpra%3Dgma
It is especially the senses of the word "object" that refer to aims and
purposes,
in other words, intentional objects and objects of intention, that we are likely
to miss if we don't remind ourselves of their pertinence to pragmatic thinking.
Regards,
Jon
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Jon Awbrey wrote:
Sally & All,
As I recall, one of Joe's abiding concerns was the idea that science
refers to an objective world of real things, perhaps real "possibles",
as opposed to any kind of radical constructivism, Sophistic relativism,
or so-called "consensual theory of truth". So say we all, I'm guessing.
However much we construct or invent our humanly erratic signs of reality,
the reality itself is "independent" of our vagaries and our vicissitudes.
That would be just my guess at this point.
Jon
Sally Ness wrote:
Jon, List,
Thanks much for this response.
With regard to the first question, since it is most likely not a
dualism between discovery and invention that JR had in mind, what
would be the alternative. He wouldn't have italicized "discovery" had
he not meant to contrast it with something else. Or, perhaps, there
is a better way to read this passage?
With regard to the second question, the logic/rhetoric distinction you
mention would seem to fit. Thanks for bringing this out.
Sally
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