John, Gary R,
See my insertions below …
Gary f.
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From: John F Sowa [mailto:s...@bestweb.net]
Sent: 28-Nov-17 15:52
On 11/28/2017 3:07 PM, Gary Richmond wrote:
> why he and others think Peirce would have written this as late as 1911
> (unless it is. indeed,
On 11/28/2017 3:07 PM, Gary Richmond wrote:
why he and others think Peirce would have written this as late as 1911
(unless it is. indeed, simply " sloppy pedagogical rhetoric."
There was nothing sloppy about Peirce's note or my comment.
Following is the context from my note of 12 noon, Nov.
Jon A, John, Kirsti, list,
Jon A wrote:
By the way, to assert “Every word makes an assertion”
is either word magic, word animism (?), or nomimalism,
the very ilk of ills that Peirce's theory of signs is
prescribed to cure us against. In Peirce's case I'll
chalk it up to simple sloppy
Jon A and Kirsti,
Jon, replying to JFS
[In] a proof by contradiction... there would be no universe about
which the statements on the paper could be true.
In that case we may say that a sign's set of denoted objects is empty.
Yes, but there are several reasons why Peirce's original
John, Jon, list,
Thank you for a most interesting discussion.
Not being so keen on set theory, or the utterly simple assertions formal
logic has so far dealt with, I would like to draw your attention to
these assertion of mine:
If there exists a sheet of assertion, for example a blackboard
Jon,
I agree!
Kirsti
Jon Awbrey kirjoitti 27.11.2017 17:30:
John, Kirsti, List ...
JFS:
In 1911, Peirce clarified that issues by using two distinct terms:
'the universe' and 'a sheet of paper'. The sheet is no longer
identified with the universe, and there is no reason why one
couldn't or
