RE: [PEIRCE-L] Pragmatic Maxims and mediation (Was Lowell Lectures)

2018-02-23 Thread kirstima
gnox, There must have been some misunderstanding of my post, if you could not find what I meant. Which is foud EP 2, 134-135. Even if CSP states in his Harward Lectures (1903) "I have not succeeded any better than this: Pragmatism is the principle that every theoretical judgement

Re: [PEIRCE-L] A Peircean linguistic view of the Second Amendment

2018-02-23 Thread Gary Richmond
List, Jon S, Franklin, Michael, list, I will not be entering this debate, one which I should have known would ensue from my reposting parts of Michael Shapiro's blog post and his reposting it in its entirety. So I apologize to the list for doing that as it was at least very naive of me. In any

Aw: Re: Re: Re: Re: [PEIRCE-L] Quasi-mind

2018-02-23 Thread Helmut Raulien
Dear Jerry, you wrote that we have had experiences. I dont remember them so well. In any case, it is not so, that I would see you representing a certain way of thinking I would categorically oppose. I cannot put you into a drawer. But I dont want to put people into drawers anyway. Some things

Re: [PEIRCE-L] A Peircean linguistic view of the Second Amendment

2018-02-23 Thread Jon Alan Schmidt
List: This is obviously a politically and emotionally charged topic at the moment, and I want to say at the outset that I personally am not a proponent of "gun rights" as that term is commonly used in public discourse. However, I do believe in accurately interpreting the Constitution, and I have

[PEIRCE-L] Re: Repeal the Second Amendment❢

2018-02-23 Thread Jon Awbrey
Hi Edwina, Folks who have been immersed in these issues for the last dozen years or more will probably have little trouble appreciating what I’m talking about on the U.S. public education and attack on science fronts. Count yourself blessed if the whole fracas has so far flown under your

Re: [PEIRCE-L] Re: Repeal the Second Amendment❢

2018-02-23 Thread Edwina Taborsky
BODY { font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:12px; } Jon- you haven't identified what this 'war' consists of. For example - what does your reference to a war against science actually mean? And you refer to 'the rain of abuse against university-educated

[PEIRCE-L] Re: Repeal the Second Amendment❢

2018-02-23 Thread Jon Awbrey
Michael, List, The U.S. Supreme Court is the Interpretive Branch of the U.S. Government and the phenomenon we have witnessed since the turn of the millennium is that powerful enough special interest groups can purchase their preferred interpretations of a written constitution of laws and have

Re: [PEIRCE-L] A Peircean linguistic view of the Second Amendment

2018-02-23 Thread pragmaticist . logos
Gary, list Out of curiosity, if it was meant for a “federally-authorized” collective fighting force, why did it need to be included as an amendment among the Bill of Rights? Surely no such amendment should be needed to protect the existence of the National Guard, and it’s hard to see why

[PEIRCE-L] Re: Ouch❢

2018-02-23 Thread Jon Awbrey
Tom, List, Everything I know about Hegel's master/slave dialectic I learned from an animated short I saw at an experimental film fest in the early 70s -- but in my news-feed just this morning I see notice of a paper by Kent Palmer referring to that Very Zeitly Geist, so I'll be reading that with

RE: [PEIRCE-L] Lowell Lecture 4.2

2018-02-23 Thread gnox
List, This part of MS 466 explains why logic is a "positive science" while mathematics is not. It's because the logician investigates "what positive facts about the real universe of things and of thoughts it is from which the necessity of the mathematician's reasonings and the validity of other

[PEIRCE-L] Repeal the Second Amendment!!!!!!!!

2018-02-23 Thread Michael Shapiro
Dear Peirce-L subscribers,Gary Richmond was kind enough to post my recent Flash Mailing to the subscribers of my blog, languagelore.net, on this site, but I'm rerposting it here in order to give you the ful original, as follows:   Once again we who are Americans are confronted