Re: [PEIRCE-L] Peirce's Theory of Thinking

2016-09-26 Thread Jerry Rhee
Clark, list: I like your warnings. And I like that they are coming from you and not me. ___ Jeff said: I do think there are a spectrum of different approaches and aims that might guide our engagement with the ideas and arguments Peirce was developing. No, there is one and only o

Re: [PEIRCE-L] Peirce's Theory of Thinking

2016-09-25 Thread Jerry Rhee
matic maxim. With best wishes, Jerry Rhee On Sun, Sep 25, 2016 at 2:15 PM, Benjamin Udell wrote: > Jeff D., Gary R., list, > > I assume we're discussing what Peirce thought, rather than what we > variously may think for our own parts. Peirce spells out the difference > between

Re: [PEIRCE-L] Peirce's Theory of Thinking

2016-09-23 Thread Jerry Rhee
Eugene, Edwina, list: If we affix our gaze upon the wet lawn and muse about what it means, what do you think we, as a community, will say? What if instead we immanate about *quid sit deus*; "What would God be?" one two three...Apollo Themis Zeus...mind body soul Best, Jerry Rhee O

Re: Re: RE: [PEIRCE-L] Peirce's Theory of Thinking

2016-09-23 Thread Jerry Rhee
Helmut, list: Void is a place/interval with nothing in it. That conclusion is reached by syllogism. Best, Jerry R On Fri, Sep 23, 2016 at 3:06 PM, Helmut Raulien wrote: > Edwina, list, > I dont remember, where I have got the term "Horror Vacui" from, but I > think it means, that the nature

Re: RE: [PEIRCE-L] Peirce's Theory of Thinking

2016-09-23 Thread Jerry Rhee
":-- O wonderful being, and to what are you looking?” Best, Jerry Rhee On Fri, Sep 23, 2016 at 2:47 PM, Edwina Taborsky wrote: > Nice outline, Helmut. But I'll quibble with a few terms. > > For example, your theist claims that 'an intelligent system is a pers

Re: [PEIRCE-L] Peirce's Theory of Thinking

2016-09-23 Thread Jerry Rhee
hypothesis up next to *this* argumentation involving the Father, Son and Spirit and see how humbling your response is against that made by a different community of inquirers, *viz*., *us*. For instance, what is plausible about Jesus being the Son of God? With best wishes, Jerry Rhee On Fri,

Re: [PEIRCE-L] Peirce's Theory of Thinking

2016-09-21 Thread Jerry Rhee
-strauss.html?_r=0 Best, Jerry Rhee On Wed, Sep 21, 2016 at 4:53 PM, Edwina Taborsky wrote: > Jeffrey - I have a few problems with your analysis. I'll comment below: > - Original Message - From: "Jeffrey Brian Downard" < > jeffrey.down...@nau.edu> >

Re: [PEIRCE-L] Peirce's Theory of Thinking

2016-09-21 Thread Jerry Rhee
ters difficulty with making perfect statements. Yet, one is expected to begin with an earnest attempt at applying the scientific method, which includes not only the adoption of the habit of mind but also the putting forth a clear statement of the hypothesis. Best, Jerry Rhee On Tue, Sep

Re: [PEIRCE-L] Peirce's Theory of Thinking

2016-09-19 Thread Jerry Rhee
it Tolstoy who said that 'wrong does not cease to be wrong just > because the majority shares in it'... > > Edwina > > - Original Message - > *From:* Jerry Rhee > *To:* Clark Goble > *Cc:* Peirce-L > *Sent:* Monday, September 19, 2016 2:52 PM > *S

Re: [PEIRCE-L] Peirce's Theory of Thinking

2016-09-19 Thread Jerry Rhee
hod, then we’re right back to arguing with no course for how to determine a good hypothesis from a bad one. Best, Jerry Rhee On Mon, Sep 19, 2016 at 12:33 PM, Clark Goble wrote: > > On Sep 19, 2016, at 9:14 AM, Edwina Taborsky wrote: > > Clark- thanks for your very nice outline of

Re: [PEIRCE-L] Peirce's Theory of Thinking

2016-09-18 Thread Jerry Rhee
yman > www.LinkedIn.com/in/JonAlanSchmidt - twitter.com/JonAlanSchmidt > > On Sun, Sep 18, 2016 at 6:13 PM, Jerry Rhee wrote: > >> Jon, list: >> >> >> >> You said: >> >> “ I find it rather implausible that a work entitled "A Neglected >

Re: [PEIRCE-L] Peirce's Theory of Thinking

2016-09-18 Thread Jerry Rhee
Jon, list: You said: “ I find it rather implausible that a work entitled "A Neglected Argument for the Reality of God" was somehow intended to be more about "the *attitude *and *method *from which all decisions of importance to the conduct of a life should begin," such that the content of the h

Re: [PEIRCE-L] Peirce's Theory of Thinking

2016-09-18 Thread Jerry Rhee
Hi Ben, list: What do you take as the thing that determines it in Chiasson's essay, then? Thanks, Jerry R On Sun, Sep 18, 2016 at 5:31 PM, Ben Novak wrote: > Clark, Jon, Jerry, Edwina, List: > > > Perhaps this essay can help in finding what Peirce meant by speaking of > this "theory of thinki

Re: [PEIRCE-L] Relations of determination--three diagrams to highlight the strata of possibles, existents and necessitants in the 10-fold classification

2016-09-17 Thread Jerry Rhee
Edwina, list: You said: *until that I-O relation does indeed correlate with the R-O Relation? Isn't this what Peirce meant by eventually arriving at the truth?* Yes. So, where is this object? On this list, it's what Peirce said. But you said different than what Jon said about what Peirce said. B

Re: [PEIRCE-L] Theory of posting

2016-09-17 Thread Jerry Rhee
Dear Edwina, Gary, list: It would surprise me more if one did *not* get angry when truth about interpretation is at stake. Why do people get angry and fight about metaphors? One two three…*thumos, eros, logos*… Best, Jerry R On Sat, Sep 17, 2016 at 2:50 PM, Edwina Taborsky wrote: > G

Re: [PEIRCE-L] Peirce's Theory of Thinking

2016-09-17 Thread Jerry Rhee
Dear list: Everyone owns earnestness. But different ones claim Truth, of which contradictions imply only one. And who claims historicism and who esotericism? What decides it; the moon or the finger? …and so goes the world… Best, Jerry R On Sat, Sep 17, 2016 at 1:52 PM, Jon Alan Schmidt

Re: [PEIRCE-L] Peirce's Theory of Thinking

2016-09-15 Thread Jerry Rhee
in its own thread. Besides, CP 6.469 is > part of the article that is supposed to be the subject of *this *thread. > > JR: Hth, Jerry R > > > Nidn, > > Jon S. > > On Thu, Sep 15, 2016 at 7:32 PM, Jerry Rhee wrote: > >> Dear list: >> >> >

Re: [PEIRCE-L] Peirce's Theory of Thinking

2016-09-15 Thread Jerry Rhee
Kansas, USA > Professional Engineer, Amateur Philosopher, Lutheran Layman > www.LinkedIn.com/in/JonAlanSchmidt - twitter.com/JonAlanSchmidt > > On Thu, Sep 15, 2016 at 4:26 PM, Jerry Rhee wrote: > >> Dear list: >> >> Jon, you said, >> "At least w

Re: [PEIRCE-L] Peirce's Theory of Thinking

2016-09-15 Thread Jerry Rhee
Dear list: Jon, you said, "At least we agree that everyone should read Peirce for themselves and draw their own conclusions." This is NOT what is meant by Peircean intention. You have no farther than to look into his disagreement with James to know this. In fact, this is of such a problematic n

Re: [PEIRCE-L] Peirce's Theory of Thinking

2016-09-15 Thread Jerry Rhee
Dear list: What I find comedic and tragic about this whole situation is that while claiming truth about interpreting Peirce, you continue to ignore the ground that is put in front of us. How many different ways are there of interpreting CP 5.189, the logic of abduction? There is your exactn

Re: [PEIRCE-L] Peirce's Theory of Thinking

2016-09-14 Thread Jerry Rhee
, The City and Man Can we be good without God? Can we be just without Nature? Can we know truth without revelation? Can we recognize the Beautiful without a clear conception of the Divine? What would God be? Hth, Jerry Rhee On Wed, Sep 14, 2016 at 1:09 PM, Edwina Taborsky wrote: > B

Re: [PEIRCE-L] Peirce's Theory of Thinking

2016-09-14 Thread Jerry Rhee
Hi Ben, Harold, Jon, Edwina, Gary list: This whole business of *one two three; one three two; Firstness Secondness Thirdness; Firstness Thirdness, Secondness; what is First or Second when speaking of an object *appears irresolvable. Everyone has his/her own pet theory for which it ought to be a

Re: [PEIRCE-L] Peirce's Theory of Thinking

2016-09-13 Thread Jerry Rhee
Ben, What is Anselm's ontological argument, for it is my opinion that someone from Missouri is expected to know it. If I, being from Missouri, is not expected to know about Anselm's ontological argument, then why are you imposing the question on us, which includes me? Best, Jerry R On Tue, Sep

Re: [PEIRCE-L] Peirce's Theory of Thinking

2016-09-13 Thread Jerry Rhee
? Best, Jerry Rhee On Tue, Sep 13, 2016 at 12:22 PM, Stephen C. Rose wrote: > Inevitably if Peirce is to become a basis for a zeitgeist or understanding > -- that we no longer live in a binary world destined for inevitable > conflict -- he will be simplified. That is as certain as

Re: [PEIRCE-L] Peirce's Theory of Thinking

2016-09-12 Thread Jerry Rhee
Clark, list: Thank you for bringing attention back to the issue of indubitable belief with: “I confess I had to look it up even though it’s right down my alley." And thus, knowledge grows from more to more; symbols grow, meanings grow. Also, for the following that illustrates one difficulty

Re: Re: [PEIRCE-L] Peirce's Theory of Thinking

2016-09-10 Thread Jerry Rhee
here are journals; >> there are books; there are conferences devoted to these issues. Google >> 'biosemiotics' on your own. >> >> And I recall a Nobel Laureate in physics, in a conference, declaring that >> Peircean semiotics was a vital analytic framework fo

Re: Re: [PEIRCE-L] Peirce's Theory of Thinking

2016-09-10 Thread Jerry Rhee
support this. > > Edwina > > - Original Message ----- > *From:* Ben Novak > *To:* Jerry Rhee > *Cc:* Edwina Taborsky ; Helmut Raulien > ; Jon Alan Schmidt ; > Peirce-L > *Sent:* Saturday, September 10, 2016 6:16 PM > *Subject:* Re: Re: [PEIRCE-L] Peirce's Theor

Re: Re: [PEIRCE-L] Peirce's Theory of Thinking

2016-09-10 Thread Jerry Rhee
might even be a *best*. But where is the proof for a community? “That the settlement of opinion is the sole end of inquiry is a very important proposition. It sweeps away, at once, various vague and erroneous conceptions of proof.” Hth, Jerry Rhee On Sat, Sep 10, 2016 at 9:40 AM, Edwina

Re: [PEIRCE-L] Peirce's Theory of Thinking

2016-09-09 Thread Jerry Rhee
Jon, list: This is the bizarre one: - Representation is (only) Thirdness. Where, exactly, does Peirce state this? Give me the name, date and serial number! :) Best, Jerry R On Fri, Sep 9, 2016 at 8:07 PM, Edwina Taborsky wrote: > Gary- enjoy your weekend. Hope the weather cools down a bi

[PEIRCE-L] Re: CP 5.189 and the form of abduction we ought to take

2016-09-09 Thread Jerry Rhee
Best, Jerry Rhee On Fri, Sep 9, 2016 at 5:11 PM, Jerry Rhee wrote: > There are numerous ways to interpret text. > > Yet, by placing things next to each other, certain things pop out. > > > > Consider from *Timaeus* (26e, 27c) the following: > > > > SOCRATES: And

[PEIRCE-L] CP 5.189 and the form of abduction we ought to take

2016-09-09 Thread Jerry Rhee
abduction we ought to take? Thank you for any contribution. Best, Jerry Rhee - PEIRCE-L subscribers: Click on "Reply List" or "Reply All" to REPLY ON PEIRCE-L to this message. PEIRCE-L posts should go to peirce-L@list.iupui.edu . To UNSUBSCRIBE, s

Re: [PEIRCE-L] Peirce's Theory of Thinking

2016-09-09 Thread Jerry Rhee
At the end of inquiry, it will be osi because it’s the natural way of seeing things as they are. Oh, and what organizes the categories as a proposition? CP 5.189. If not this, *which*? Don’t be a vegetable. Best, Jerry Rhee “We must state whether it belongs to one or to different scien

Re: Re: [PEIRCE-L] Re: Peirce's Theory of Thinking

2016-09-09 Thread Jerry Rhee
ourse much better elaborated > than I would be able to do) by the book "Thinking evil" by Bettina > Stangneth. > Best, > Helmut > > 09. September 2016 um 04:10 Uhr > "Jerry Rhee" wrote: > > > Jon, list: > > > > They are all consistent. >

Re: [PEIRCE-L] Re: Peirce's Theory of Thinking

2016-09-08 Thread Jerry Rhee
Jon, list: They are all consistent. What is analogical reasoning but saying one thing in terms of another? essence and esse Subject and predicate Father and Son Non-being and being Agent and patient First and Second ens originarium and ens necessarium theologico-physico name and de

Re: [PEIRCE-L] Peirce's Theory of Thinking

2016-09-08 Thread Jerry Rhee
, and will strive to be the the worthy knight and champion of her from the blaze of whose splendors he draws his inspiration and his courage.” “*Let us acknowledge**, **then**, that **we have a preamble*.” Best, Jerry Rhee On Thu, Sep 8, 2016 at 5:21 PM, CLARK GOBLE wrote: > > On Sep 8,

Re: [PEIRCE-L] Peirce's Theory of Thinking

2016-09-08 Thread Jerry Rhee
y not smart. Still, I understand this is a Peirce list and he was a prodigious writer, has an inherently coherent system and hard enough to understand in its own. Best, Jerry Rhee On Thu, Sep 8, 2016 at 4:41 PM, Edwina Taborsky wrote: > Jon, list > > My use of the term 'unive

Re: [PEIRCE-L] Peirce's Theory of Thinking

2016-09-08 Thread Jerry Rhee
Hi everyone, Here is a general expression of human nature: MENO: When you have told me what I ask, I will tell you, Socrates. SOCRATES: A man who was blindfolded has only to hear you talking, and he would know that you are a fair creature and have still many lovers. MENO: Why do you think so?

Re: Re: Re: [PEIRCE-L] Peirce's Theory of Thinking

2016-09-07 Thread Jerry Rhee
(even in spite of me) because it is right opinion and movement is preferable to constant generation and confusion. Besides, if not this, *which*? Hth, Jerry Rhee ps: Existence is Second. Reality is the object to which the truth points. Truth is Third. At the end of inquiry, it is

Re: Re: [PEIRCE-L] Peirce's Theory of Thinking

2016-09-06 Thread Jerry Rhee
Hi list: The "theory of the nature of thinking"...one or many? How would you know and how would you convince others? *“But if there is something which is capable of moving things or acting on them, but is not actually doing so, there will not necessarily be movement; for that which has a potency

Re: [PEIRCE-L] Peirce's Theory of Thinking

2016-09-05 Thread Jerry Rhee
the subject…” Aristotle, *Metaphysics Book XII* Hth, Jerry Rhee On Mon, Sep 5, 2016 at 3:09 PM, Jon Alan Schmidt wrote: > List: > > While searching through the *Collected Papers* for all instances of the > word "habit," which I anticipate will be the next concept

Re: [PEIRCE-L] Dynamic/Immediate Object and Determination/Causation

2016-08-29 Thread Jerry Rhee
Hi list: Just to get ahead of some future problems when discussing claims of italic *nature*: “The primeval notion of “custom” or “way” is split up into the notions of “nature,” on the one hand, and “convention,” on the other. The distinction between nature and convention, between *physis* and *

Re: [PEIRCE-L] Dynamic/Immediate Object and Determination/Causation

2016-08-25 Thread Jerry Rhee
Gary f., Bev, Jon, Edwina, list: Gary: Defining the Beautiful is an older problem than Kant. The Beautiful also has to do with the eternal, the immortal. For instance, Socrates was ugly but he was Beautiful. God is Beautiful. The Beautiful is the object of desire, the object of desire for

Re: [PEIRCE-L] Dynamic/Immediate Object and Determination/Causation

2016-08-23 Thread Jerry Rhee
Jon, I'm curious. What would you have if you find the answers to those questions? it appears even if you find the right answers, there'll still be the problem of communicating it correctly to others, since we won't even recognize its correctness. If you know it just to know it...well...*shrug*.

Re: [PEIRCE-L] Dynamic/Immediate Object and Determination/Causation

2016-08-23 Thread Jerry Rhee
high in the light of the low.* In doing the latter one necessarily distorts the high, whereas in doing the former one does not deprive the low of the freedom to reveal itself as fully as what it is.” Best, Jerry Rhee PS: You said: "i.e. it’s signs all the way down." The little old

Re: [PEIRCE-L] Peirce's Objective Idealism

2016-08-23 Thread Jerry Rhee
Hi all, “:*— O wonderful being, and to what are you looking?*” Plato, *Laws*, Book XII …on *objective* mind and the many interpretants Hth, Jerry Rhee On Tue, Aug 23, 2016 at 2:19 PM, Jon Alan Schmidt wrote: > Edwina, List: > > EW: Peirce outlined the three common answe

Re: [PEIRCE-L] Dynamic/Immediate Object and Determination/Causation

2016-08-22 Thread Jerry Rhee
dea starts in mind and not matter, since matter is common to us but the idea is only yours and not mine? Best, Jerry Rhee On Mon, Aug 22, 2016 at 11:39 AM, Edwina Taborsky wrote: > Dear Soren: > > Thank you for your comments - I agree; I think that the debate on 'which > is fir

Re: [PEIRCE-L] Dynamic/Immediate Object and Determination/Causation

2016-08-21 Thread Jerry Rhee
ume you are joking. I meant what I wrote. The Sign doesn't > have a 'soul' and I've no idea what a soul is. > > Edwina > > - Original Message - > *From:* Jerry Rhee > *To:* Edwina Taborsky > *Cc:* Jon Alan Schmidt ; Peirce-L > ; Gary

Re: [PEIRCE-L] Dynamic/Immediate Object and Determination/Causation

2016-08-21 Thread Jerry Rhee
Edwina, list: When you say, “I do want to emphasize that when I refer to Sign, I refer not to the Representamen, but to the Relations the sign/representamen has with the objects and interpretants.” Do you mean in other words, “not the mere body of the Sign, which is not essentially such, but,

Re: [PEIRCE-L] Dynamic/Immediate Object and Determination/Causation

2016-08-19 Thread Jerry Rhee
Hi all, Absolute Being = Final Interpretant Best, Jerry R On Fri, Aug 19, 2016 at 8:58 PM, Gary Richmond wrote: > Jon, list, > > I hope some of the points I made were helpful in sorting this all out. You > wrote: > > ​JS: ​ > Given the association of both virtuality and interpretants with Thir

Re: Re: [PEIRCE-L] Abductive Form of Inference - CP 5.189 vs. CP 6.469

2016-08-19 Thread Jerry Rhee
Gary, list: I am just now getting into Book X of the *Laws*, Plato. I am not certain what I will find there. However, based on my previous reading of Plato and of Peirce, of this I am certain: I will cite whatever I find in Book X as my apologia. Best, Jerry Rhee On Fri, Aug 19, 2016 at 3:47

Re: Re: [PEIRCE-L] Abductive Form of Inference - CP 5.189 vs. CP 6.469

2016-08-19 Thread Jerry Rhee
erent tendency in it. That is, if the idea has vitality. The concept that habit-taking precedes law is also discussed in Plato. Clearly, your habit is to read CP5.189 as a historicist. Best, Jerry Rhee On Fri, Aug 19, 2016 at 11:39 AM, Gary Richmond wrote: > Stephen, Jon, Jerry R, list, &g

Re: Re: [PEIRCE-L] Abductive Form of Inference - CP 5.189 vs. CP 6.469

2016-08-18 Thread Jerry Rhee
Father of Jesus is ethics”. I would, however, say “The Father of Jesus is esthetics” because Jesus follows the Father just as ethics follows esthetics, which is a First. But Jesus and ethics, they are Second. They are Second because Seconds follow Firsts. And to all a good night! Jerry Rhee On

Re: Re: [PEIRCE-L] Abductive Form of Inference - CP 5.189 vs. CP 6.469

2016-08-18 Thread Jerry Rhee
hing instead of this ambiguous thing with no name, except for what is surprising and suspicious? One, two, three…chance, law, habit-taking. Best, Jerry Rhee On Thu, Aug 18, 2016 at 11:01 PM, Jon Alan Schmidt wrote: > Jerry R., List: > > " In the syllogism in which God is the first, th

Re: Re: [PEIRCE-L] Abductive Form of Inference - CP 5.189 vs. CP 6.469

2016-08-18 Thread Jerry Rhee
tal. If beautiful, then we start with the divine. The Divine is First. How great will that be for resolving political action? Best, Jerry Rhee On Thu, Aug 18, 2016 at 9:22 PM, Jon Alan Schmidt wrote: > Jerry R., List: > > My first question is the one that I acknowledged you alr

Re: Re: [PEIRCE-L] Abductive Form of Inference - CP 5.189 vs. CP 6.469

2016-08-18 Thread Jerry Rhee
second. If you decide to wade in those waters, you may find the third. Best, Jerry Rhee On Thu, Aug 18, 2016 at 6:25 PM, Gary Richmond wrote: > Stephen, list, > > You wrote: I now see my work as the articulation of an explicit daily > exercise. It has more to do with CSP's tho

Re: Re: [PEIRCE-L] Abductive Form of Inference - CP 5.189 vs. CP 6.469

2016-08-18 Thread Jerry Rhee
present as the moving *soul* in all philosophical procedure…” one, two, three… Beauty, Goodness, Truth…Feeling, Reaction, Mediation…spiritedness, desire, reason… Hth, Jerry Rhee On Thu, Aug 18, 2016 at 4:25 PM, Stephen C. Rose wrote: > It seems clear to me that there is probably no way

Re: Re: Re: [PEIRCE-L] Re: Dynamic/Immediate Object and Determination/Causation

2016-08-18 Thread Jerry Rhee
nfusion." This is not one of them. > > Regards, > > Jon Alan Schmidt - Olathe, Kansas, USA > Professional Engineer, Amateur Philosopher, Lutheran Layman > www.LinkedIn.com/in/JonAlanSchmidt - twitter.com/JonAlanSchmidt > > On Thu, Aug 18, 2016 at 3:50 PM, Jerry Rhee

Re: Re: Re: [PEIRCE-L] Re: Dynamic/Immediate Object and Determination/Causation

2016-08-18 Thread Jerry Rhee
Helmut, list: “This has happened before”… “…it is of the essence of civil society that private judgment be replaced by public judgment...In other words, the transformation of natural man into a citizen is a problem coeval with society itself, and therefore society has a continuous need for at

Re: [PEIRCE-L] Re: Dynamic/Immediate Object and Determination/Causation

2016-08-18 Thread Jerry Rhee
There are 66 different meanings of "sign". So, where is context? Not your context, not my context but *our* context. Not so abstract as not to be real... Best, Jerry R On Thu, Aug 18, 2016 at 3:04 PM, Gary Richmond wrote: > Edwina, Helmut, list, > > As I have in the past, I must once again s

Re: Re: [PEIRCE-L] Abductive Form of Inference - CP 5.189 vs. CP 6.469

2016-08-18 Thread Jerry Rhee
“…. First Stage of Inquiry… Second Stage of Inquiry… inquiry enters upon its Third Stage…” The surprising fact, “capital First, Second, Third and not first,” is observed. But if One, Two, Three were true… Besides, if not this, which? Best, Jerry Rhee On Thu, Aug 18, 2016 at 1:38 PM, Edwina

Re: [PEIRCE-L] Dynamic/Immediate Object and Determination/Causation

2016-08-18 Thread Jerry Rhee
Hi all, I like what Clark has to say. I would also include, a computer model/representamen of what is implied of observation X. Best, J On Thu, Aug 18, 2016 at 12:01 PM, CLARK GOBLE wrote: > > On Aug 18, 2016, at 10:32 AM, Jon Alan Schmidt > wrote: > > Could you please elaborate on what you

Re: Re: [PEIRCE-L] Abductive Form of Inference - CP 5.189 vs. CP 6.469

2016-08-18 Thread Jerry Rhee
Jerry: “Abduction is First, Deduction is Second, Induction is Third”. Jon/Edwina/Helmut: “No! It’s not!” James: “Any surprise involves a resistance to accepting the fact” Jon: “The formulation of a hypothesis occurs second” Hypothesis: The surprising fact, “one, two, three” is obs

Re: [PEIRCE-L] Abductive Form of Inference - CP 5.189 vs. CP 6.469

2016-08-17 Thread Jerry Rhee
primarily with Thirdness > (Assurance of Form), and induction corresponds primarily with Secondness > (Assurance of Experience); so the sequence of the three stages of inquiry > is not aligned with the category names, either. > > Regards, > > Jon Alan Schmidt - Olathe, Kansa

Re: [PEIRCE-L] Abductive Form of Inference - CP 5.189 vs. CP 6.469

2016-08-17 Thread Jerry Rhee
On Wed, Aug 17, 2016 at 8:43 PM, Jon Alan Schmidt wrote: > What ordinality, Jerry? > > On Wed, Aug 17, 2016 at 8:39 PM, Jerry Rhee wrote: > >> Jon, >> >> Is the ordinality there, too? >> >> Jerry >> >> On Wed, Aug 17, 2016 at 7:00 PM, Jon Alan Sc

Re: [PEIRCE-L] Abductive Form of Inference - CP 5.189 vs. CP 6.469

2016-08-17 Thread Jerry Rhee
Jon, Is the ordinality there, too? Jerry On Wed, Aug 17, 2016 at 7:00 PM, Jon Alan Schmidt wrote: > Right--like I said up-front, CP 5.189 is pithy and helpful; but like I > said later, CP 6.469 is a bit clearer and more complete. > > On Wed, Aug 17, 2016 at 6:40 PM, Jerry

Re: [PEIRCE-L] Abductive Form of Inference - CP 5.189 vs. CP 6.469

2016-08-17 Thread Jerry Rhee
R., List: > > I agree that the two passages are describing the same thing, the abductive > form of inference; hence the subject title. My suggestion is simply that > CP 6.469 is a bit clearer and more complete than CP 5.189. > > Jon > > On Wed, Aug 17, 2016 at 1:50 PM, Jerry R

Re: Re: [PEIRCE-L] Thirdness, Thought and Representation

2016-08-17 Thread Jerry Rhee
han the high in the light of the low.* In doing the latter one necessarily distorts the high, whereas in doing the former one does not deprive the low of the freedom to reveal itself as fully as what it is.” ~Strauss Best, Jerry Rhee On Wed, Aug 17, 2016 at 1:57 PM, Edwina Taborsky wrote: >

Re: [PEIRCE-L] Abductive Form of Inference - CP 5.189 vs. CP 6.469

2016-08-17 Thread Jerry Rhee
Alan Schmidt - Olathe, Kansas, USA > Professional Engineer, Amateur Philosopher, Lutheran Layman > www.LinkedIn.com/in/JonAlanSchmidt - twitter.com/JonAlanSchmidt > > On Wed, Aug 17, 2016 at 1:10 PM, Jerry Rhee wrote: > >> Hi Jon, all: >> >> I call it B but there is

Re: Re: [PEIRCE-L] Thirdness, Thought and Representation

2016-08-17 Thread Jerry Rhee
Edwina, Many authors have interpreted Peirce's ultimate aim/growth of concrete reasonableness/his *summum bonum*. I would recommend, Potter, Parker, Sorenson and Thellefsen, among many others... I think a good place to start in Peirce is with the question, "What does right reasoning consist in?"

Re: [PEIRCE-L] Abductive Form of Inference - CP 5.189 vs. CP 6.469

2016-08-17 Thread Jerry Rhee
Hi Jon, all: I call it B but there is no B, just like there is no B in the indeterminate dyad. But there is surprise and suspect, just as there is understanding. These are the feelings and thoughts that affect the habit of expectation of the *inquisiturus*. That is, I simply take them to be iden

Re: [PEIRCE-L] Thirdness, Thought and Representation

2016-08-16 Thread Jerry Rhee
Alan Schmidt - Olathe, Kansas, USA > Professional Engineer, Amateur Philosopher, Lutheran Layman > www.LinkedIn.com/in/JonAlanSchmidt - twitter.com/JonAlanSchmidt > > On Tue, Aug 16, 2016 at 12:52 PM, Jerry Rhee wrote: > >> Jon: >> >> >&g

Re: [PEIRCE-L] Thirdness, Thought and Representation

2016-08-16 Thread Jerry Rhee
ense to it. Critical Common Sense says, if it is good enough, then why not this? If not this as best, then which? http://storiesforpreaching.com/i-sent-you-a-rowboat/ Best, Jerry Rhee On Tue, Aug 16, 2016 at 12:52 PM, Jerry Rhee wrote: > Jon, Edwina, Ben, List: > > > > Again, than

Re: [PEIRCE-L] Thirdness, Thought and Representation

2016-08-16 Thread Jerry Rhee
nother better. So, if not this, which? “And what other can we find that will be better than this? *How or where shall we find another if we abandon this*?” Is it necessary? Is a preamble necessary? With best wishes, Jerry Rhee On Tue, Aug 16, 2016 at 12:25 PM, Benjamin Udell wrote: &

Re: [PEIRCE-L] Thirdness, Thought and Representation

2016-08-15 Thread Jerry Rhee
of reasons we are giving for the kind of assertions we are making (Why C? Why A? Why C in combination with A?). We can then make a group determination on how to proceed. I hope that’s a clear response… Best, Jerry Rhee On Mon, Aug 15, 2016 at 9:20 PM, Jon Alan Schmidt wrote: >

Re: [PEIRCE-L] Thirdness, Thought and Representation

2016-08-15 Thread Jerry Rhee
g. It's about > what Peirce said. You claim that he made a certain assertion - and we just > need the actual textual reference for your claim. > > Shouldn't be that hard to find the actual text. > > Edwina > > - Original Message - > *From:* Jerry Rhee &g

Re: [PEIRCE-L] Thirdness, Thought and Representation

2016-08-15 Thread Jerry Rhee
e chance topics of discourse. *Let us acknowledge, then, that we have a preamble*.” Let us acknowledge then, that CP 5.189 is the best form of argument. One, two, three…chance, law, habit-taking…C, A, B…CP 5.189 ”If the owner only knew how to use his great and noble possession, how happy would h

Re: [PEIRCE-L] Thirdness, Thought and Representation

2016-08-14 Thread Jerry Rhee
all we find another if we abandon this?” That is, I had hoped that you would apply the method of the nature of the best to the issue of presenting a concise and sufficient statement of abduction based on your own standards, criteria and experiences. Perhaps that was asking too much, for why else

Re: [PEIRCE-L] Thirdness, Thought and Representation

2016-08-13 Thread Jerry Rhee
, withstand me might and main, that I may not deceive you as well as myself in my enthusiasm…” ~ Plato, *Phaedo* Best, Jerry Rhee On Sat, Aug 13, 2016 at 11:19 PM, Jon Alan Schmidt wrote: > Jerry R., List: > > I hesitate to jump in here, especially since I am currently on vacation > with

Re: [PEIRCE-L] Thirdness, Thought and Representation

2016-08-13 Thread Jerry Rhee
and semiosis? Best, Jerry Rhee On Sat, Aug 13, 2016 at 4:34 PM, wrote: > Now, Jerry, don’t get angry. If you want to get a definite sense of > Firstness, Secondness and Thirdness, it is necessary to think along with > Peirce’s argument as he introduces and uses these terms in his argum

Re: RE: RE: [PEIRCE-L] Thirdness, Thought and Representation

2016-08-13 Thread Jerry Rhee
Dear Gary f., list: “I do not understand you” is the phrase of an angry man. Your most recent utterance is confusing to me, as interpreter, because you utter that signs and objects can each be first, second and third, although *this* cannot be a sign and object at the same time- that they hav

Re: RE: RE: [PEIRCE-L] Thirdness, Thought and Representation

2016-08-12 Thread Jerry Rhee
erve the changes which take place in them during *infinite ages*” (Plato, Laws). For what reason is CP 5.189 the normative form of abduction, the form to which abduction ought to conform? I would recommend thinking through that question. Best, Jerry Rhee On Fri, Aug 12, 2016 at 2:15 PM,

Re: RE: [PEIRCE-L] Thirdness, Thought and Representation

2016-08-12 Thread Jerry Rhee
talking about, or at least think > they do. > > > > Gary f. > > > > *From:* Jerry Rhee [mailto:jerryr...@gmail.com] > *Sent:* 11-Aug-16 17:33 > > > > Hi Gary f., Jeff list: > > > > I was writing out my thoughts before reading Jeff's nice contri

Re: RE: [PEIRCE-L] Thirdness, Thought and Representation

2016-08-11 Thread Jerry Rhee
of pragmatism is respectable enough; but the *more conscious adoption of it as lanterna pedibus* in the discussion of dark questions, and the elaboration of it into a method in aid of philosophic inquiry… Let us acknowledge, then, that we have a preamble. Best, Jerry Rhee On Thu, Aug 11, 2016

Re: RE: [PEIRCE-L] Thirdness, Thought and Representation

2016-08-11 Thread Jerry Rhee
housand things. sign, object, interpretant…object, sign, interpretant…a return to a natural horizon… An (first), other (second), medium (third), and not other (second), An (first), medium (third). That is, if not this, *which*? Best, Jerry Rhee On Thu, Aug 11, 2016 at 1:45 PM, Jeffrey B

Re: RE: [PEIRCE-L] Thirdness, Thought and Representation

2016-08-11 Thread Jerry Rhee
Gary f, list: What do you mean by “Firstness, Secondness and Thirdness *are not ordinal concepts *in Peirce’s phenomenology”, please? Best Jerry R On Thu, Aug 11, 2016 at 11:20 AM, Helmut Raulien wrote: > Gary f., list, > > I have not read it thoroughly yet, but here an example for a term/

Re: [PEIRCE-L] Thirdness, Thought and Representation

2016-08-10 Thread Jerry Rhee
? What’s a horizon? What’s a natural horizon? Hth, Jerry Rhee On Wed, Aug 10, 2016 at 11:24 AM, wrote: > Peirceans, > > > > In a reply to one of Helmut’s posts last week, I quoted a paragraph from > one of Peirce’s Lowell lectures. When I took a closer look at the contex

Re: [PEIRCE-L] Percepts and control

2016-08-05 Thread Jerry Rhee
, and throughout the purely physical world…” ~Peirce http://ccl.northwestern.edu/netlogo/models/Honeycomb Best, Jerry Rhee On Fri, Aug 5, 2016 at 4:16 PM, CLARK GOBLE wrote: > > On Aug 5, 2016, at 2:13 PM, Helmut Raulien wrote: > > I have not yet understood this, because if consc

Re: [PEIRCE-L] Percepts and control

2016-08-05 Thread Jerry Rhee
Hi everyone, Here is something more of which to say about consciousness and mind: "The absolute beginning, accordingly, is the *Idea*.. The procedure made from this beginning is the systematic exposition of the world of Nature and Spirit, as manifestation, realization, and actualization of Go

Re: [PEIRCE-L] Percepts and control

2016-08-02 Thread Jerry Rhee
Helmut, Gary, list: Many questions in here...or one. Helmut, I'm curious “The dream was bidding me do what I was already doing, in the same way that the competitor in a race is bidden by the spectators to run when he is already running.” what’s already in this ox’s mind? How about already i

Re: [PEIRCE-L] RE: [Sadhu Sanga] How to judge what is pseudoscience?

2016-07-26 Thread Jerry Rhee
Stephen, list: You said, “Try explaining to Isaac Newton, or CS Peirce, that they were wasting their time trying to frame things in terms of an axiomatic framework... *Peirce may not have spelt it out*….” _ Given the situation: "I do not understand you," is the phrase of an angry man”, in

Re: [PEIRCE-L] Mind evolving

2016-07-23 Thread Jerry Rhee
Dear Eugene, Gary, list: Thank you for your contributions. In the passages given, Moore uses “religion” like Gary uses “science”; not as true religion and science but “dogmatic religion” and “didactic science”- something incomplete to be held up against some other higher to emphasize a low wa

Re: [PEIRCE-L] The auhor's claim: There is no *distinctly* scientific method

2016-07-20 Thread Jerry Rhee
is worth having; that we have reached the limit of measurement and construction. With best wishes, Jerry Rhee On Wed, Jul 20, 2016 at 11:58 AM, Clark Goble wrote: > (Sorry, I accidentally sent that last post while still working on it. So > take it in terms of working out ideas and forg

Re: [PEIRCE-L] The auhor's claim: There is no *distinctly* scientific method

2016-07-19 Thread Jerry Rhee
wholeness/completeness directly treats the nonage problem. I mean, what does one expect from a Beautiful example of a normative method, anyways? Best, Jerry Rhee On Tue, Jul 19, 2016 at 8:15 PM, Jon Alan Schmidt wrote: > Stefan, List: > > You wrote ... > > It would be much

Re: [PEIRCE-L] The auhor's claim: There is no *distinctly* scientific method

2016-07-17 Thread Jerry Rhee
ess, truth... icon, index, symbol... esthetics, ethics, logic... Best, Jerry Rhee On Sun, Jul 17, 2016 at 6:23 AM, sb wrote: > Jerry, List, > > thanks for pointing back to the beginning of the thread. > > We always think that the scientific method, if there is *one*, is a > extre

Re: [PEIRCE-L] The auhor's claim: There is no *distinctly* scientific method

2016-07-15 Thread Jerry Rhee
you carefully consider the question of pragmatism, *is it* nothing else than the question of the logic of abduction? Perhaps it is our conceit that there is only one way of understanding a phenomenon… Best, Jerry Rhee On Thu, Jul 14, 2016 at 12:49 PM, sb wrote: > Gary F., > > maybe

Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: [PEIRCE-L] The auhor's claim: There is no *distinctly* scientific method

2016-07-12 Thread Jerry Rhee
ism". It helps to reign in the multiplicity. I would also ask the reader to examine what is being examined when asking "why contrite fallibilism". That is, if not contrite fallibilism, which? Best, Jerry Rhee On Tue, Jul 12, 2016 at 4:20 PM, Helmut Raulien wrote: > Jerry, li

Re: [PEIRCE-L] The auhor's claim: There is no *distinctly* scientific method

2016-07-12 Thread Jerry Rhee
Hi sb, all; one, two, three...*pathos*, ethos, *logos*... Best, Jerry R On Tue, Jul 12, 2016 at 3:22 PM, sb wrote: > Gary, John, Olga, > > what is this thing "science" you are talking about? Do you mean the > sociological phenomen or the idea of science? I think these two are a bit > mixed up

Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: [PEIRCE-L] The auhor's claim: There is no *distinctly* scientific method

2016-07-11 Thread Jerry Rhee
considered equivalent to the three categories, except it is framed and presented differently. That Plato was aware can simply be gleaned from Laws, Republic and Timaeus. “*And very unlike a divine man would he be, who is unable to count **one* *, **two**, **three”* *Hth,* *Jerry Rhee* On Mon, Ju

Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: [PEIRCE-L] The auhor's claim: There is no *distinctly* scientific method

2016-07-10 Thread Jerry Rhee
problem of grudge is justice. Is it possible to analyse all political > problem patterns and values like this? Then pragmaticism might be able to > deliver a quite valuable manual for politicians. Also about problem > patterns like xenophopia / tribalism: Avoidable? Solvable? > Best, > Hel

Re: Re: Re: Re: [PEIRCE-L] The auhor's claim: There is no *distinctly* scientific method

2016-07-09 Thread Jerry Rhee
Helmut, I suppose that is why it is a political problem...something consciously to be adopted for discussion of dark questions...the light to guide our researches...something befitting to belong to the ancestry of pragmaticism. best, Jerry Rhee On Sat, Jul 9, 2016 at 12:59 PM, Helmut Raulien

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