[peirce-l] Re: Peirce-James question
Title: RE: [peirce-l] Re: Peirce-James question Yes, as you say, it is reasonable to assume that Peirce had an influence. Bdut what was that influence? The last page anda half of that essay is very obscure. I thought someone on the list might have discussed it. -Original Message- From: Joseph Ransdell [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Wed 10/4/2006 6:56 AM To: Peirce Discussion Forum Subject: [peirce-l] Re: Peirce-James question It's just a typing error for "1869". But as regards the question, it is reasonable to suppose that James was influenced by that article even if there is no evidence other than the evidence for him having read it, provided there is something in it which suggests this. It was during a period in which James would have been susceptible to such an influence (e.g. the metaphysical club was formed in l871). Joe Ransdell [EMAIL PROTECTED] - Original Message From: Jorge Lurac <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: Peirce Discussion Forum Sent: Wednesday, October 4, 2006 5:19:59 AM Subject: [peirce-l] Re: Peirce-James question Are you sure? James died August 26, 1910. J. Lurac _ You wrote: I've been away from the list a while and don't know whether this has been discussed before. Perhaps you can help me. I've been concerned with James lately, particularly his comment about Peirce's essay which he found in "comprehensible," despite Peirce's "vocal elucidations," but which "interested me [James] strangely." Despite Peirce's "crabbed" writing, I think James studied the printed essay later and figured it out. I also think - but want some confirmation - that parts of that "strangely interesting" essay influenced James' with respect to the will to believe and with respect to risk. This is not to say that Peirce would have agreed with what James made of Peirce's essay. The essay which James alluded to, in his letter to Bowditch, seems to have been, "The Grounds of Validity of the Laws of Logic," written in 1969. __ Correo Yahoo! Espacio para todos tus mensajes, antivirus y antispam ¡gratis! Reg¨strate ya - http://correo.espanol.yahoo.com/ --- Message from peirce-l forum to subscriber [EMAIL PROTECTED] --- Message from peirce-l forum to subscriber [EMAIL PROTECTED] --- Message from peirce-l forum to subscriber archive@mail-archive.com
[peirce-l] Re: Peirce-James question
It's just a typing error for "1869". But as regards the question, it is reasonable to suppose that James was influenced by that article even if there is no evidence other than the evidence for him having read it, provided there is something in it which suggests this. It was during a period in which James would have been susceptible to such an influence (e.g. the metaphysical club was formed in l871). Joe Ransdell [EMAIL PROTECTED] - Original Message From: Jorge Lurac <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>To: Peirce Discussion Forum Sent: Wednesday, October 4, 2006 5:19:59 AMSubject: [peirce-l] Re: Peirce-James questionAre you sure? James died August 26, 1910. J. Lurac _ You wrote: I've been away from the list a while and don't know whether this has been discussed before. Perhaps you can help me. I've been concerned with James lately, particularly his comment about Peirce's essay which he found in "comprehensible," despite Peirce's "vocal elucidations," but which "interested me [James] strangely." Despite Peirce's "crabbed" writing, I think James studied the printed essay later and figured it out. I also think - but want some confirmation - that parts of that "strangely interesting" essay influenced James' with respect to the will to believe and with respect to risk. This is not to say that Peirce would have agreed with what James made of Peirce's essay. The essay which James alluded to, in his letter to Bowditch, seems to have been, "The Grounds of Validity of the Laws of Logic," written in 1969. __Correo Yahoo!Espacio para todos tus mensajes, antivirus y antispam ¡gratis! Reg¨strate ya - http://correo.espanol.yahoo.com/ --- Message from peirce-l forum to subscriber [EMAIL PROTECTED] --- Message from peirce-l forum to subscriber archive@mail-archive.com
[peirce-l] Re: Peirce-James question
Are you sure? James died August 26, 1910. J. Lurac _ You wrote: I've been away from the list a while and don't know whether this has been discussed before. Perhaps you can help me. I've been concerned with James lately, particularly his comment about Peirce's essay which he found in "comprehensible," despite Peirce's "vocal elucidations," but which "interested me [James] strangely." Despite Peirce's "crabbed" writing, I think James studied the printed essay later and figured it out. I also think - but want some confirmation - that parts of that "strangely interesting" essay influenced James' with respect to the will to believe and with respect to risk. This is not to say that Peirce would have agreed with what James made of Peirce's essay. The essay which James alluded to, in his letter to Bowditch, seems to have been, "The Grounds of Validity of the Laws of Logic," written in 1969. __Correo Yahoo!Espacio para todos tus mensajes, antivirus y antispam ¡gratis! Reg¨strate ya - http://correo.espanol.yahoo.com/ --- Message from peirce-l forum to subscriber archive@mail-archive.com
