Re: [PEIRCE-L] Synechism and Peirce's Categories

2024-05-08 Thread Jon Alan Schmidt
Jerry, List: I have corrected the typo, changing "synergism" to "synechism" below. Again, from the standpoint of metaphysics, I understand the constitution of contingent being to be an inexhaustible continuum (3ns) of indefinite possibilities (1ns), some of which are actualized (2ns). Material

Re: [PEIRCE-L] Synechism and Peirce's Categories typo correction

2024-05-08 Thread Jerry LR Chandler
Typo correction: ‘Synergism' should read ’synechism' > On May 8, 2024, at 2:41 PM, Jerry LR Chandler > wrote: > > Jon: > >> On May 7, 2024, at 5:24 PM, Jon Alan Schmidt >> wrote: >> >> What additional insights can we gain from further contemplating continuity >> in light of the

Re: [PEIRCE-L] the logic of vagueness

2024-05-08 Thread Gary Richmond
Martin, Gary F, List, Martin, I too had something of a "transcendent experience" when in my 20's I first read that famous passage (of the left hand touching the right hand which is touching something else) in *The Phenomenology of Perception*. Many decades of reflection later (and after a crash

Re: [PEIRCE-L] Synechism and Peirce's Categories

2024-05-08 Thread Jerry LR Chandler
Jon: > On May 7, 2024, at 5:24 PM, Jon Alan Schmidt wrote: > > What additional insights can we gain from further contemplating continuity in > light of the categories, and the categories in light of continuity? > Material reality of the chemical sciences is based on the uniqueness of every