Jeff, List:
You and I seem to be more or less on the same page here, along with Martin
in light of his helpful clarification that avoiding "originalism" and
"endism" simply means recognizing that inquiry has no definite beginning or
end--just like the universe in Peirce's cosmology, and
Gary F., List:
Put another way, "the pragmaticist does not make the *summum bonum* to
consist in action, but makes it to consist in that process of evolution
whereby the existent comes more and more to embody those generals which
were just now said to be *destined*, which is what we strive to
Gary F., Jon S, all,
I take Peirce's argument for the triad of ideals—aesthetic, ethical and
logical--to start with an analysis of our ordinary conception of having an end
and then asking: what is necessary for an end to be ultimate? In his
discussion of the topological character of the
Gary F., List:
I did not claim "that absolute determinacy is the ideal *summum bonum*," I
said that according to Peirce, concrete reasonableness is the *summum bonum*
and utter determinacy is the state that the universe *would *reach as an
ideal limit in the infinite future, but never actually
Jon, I think that’s a fair description of Peirce’s views (at that stage of his
life anyway). But you’ve given no reason why you or anyone else should share
the view that absolute determinacy is the ideal summum bonum, or is better than
a less determinate state of things, or that the universe
The next session of the Logica Universalis Webinar will take place
Wednesday April 26 at 4pm CET
Speaker: Angelina Ilic Stepic
http://www.mi.sanu.ac.rs/novi_sajt/research/projects/AI4TrustBC/participants.php
Title of the talk: Probability Logics for Reasoning About Quantum
Observations
