Re: [PEIRCE-L] A question for pragmatists, was, Comments on the nature and purpose of Peirce-L, was, The Basis of Synechism in Phaneroscopy

List, Peirce-L subscriber, Atila Bayat, meant to send this post to the entire forum, but posted it to me. He's asked me to resend it for him. See directly below. GR Gary, I wanted to answer an earlier thread, of yours but lost the cue. Much or all of our public media has our intellectuals in a

Re: [PEIRCE-L] Elliptic, Parabolic, and Hyperbolic (was A question for pragmatists)

List: As I noted yesterday, the identification of exactly three kinds of genuine conic sections goes back at least as far as Euclid, so it is not something that Peirce invented or derived from his universal categories. Nevertheless, upon further reflection, there is a sense in which they can be