Helmut, List,
I have to say I don't see all that much of consequence
riding on the “pin the tail on the category” game that
so diverts the List on so many occasions, apart perhaps
from the functional value of social cohesion it affords.
And I have come to suspect, after many many years, that
Thank you, Jon! But, if matter is potentiality, and form is actuality, I still wonder why Peirce didn´t assign 1ns to matter, and 2ns to form. But everybody, please try not to explain, at least not if it were meant for just my sake, I would not understand it in the moment.
Best,
Helmut
12.
Jon A, I assume you were responding to the Peirce quote and disagreeing. My
own feeling is that violence and doing harm are addressed by Peirce and
accepted by Aristotle and that binary thinking is more inclined to violence
than triadic.
Note to Gary R. If you can provide instruction on how to
Helmut, List,
Here is one of my musements on
a few pertinent paragraphs from
Aristotle's treatise “On the Soul”:
Inquiry Driven Systems • The Formative Tension
http://intersci.ss.uci.edu/wiki/index.php/Inquiry_Driven_Systems_:_Part_2#The_Formative_Tension
Consider especially:
We describe
Stephen,
I know not what course others may take but
I count Aristotle as the first pragmatist.
Whatever he may owe to Plato, he exerted
himself to maintain a connection between
forms (ideas) and practical matters in
real-life experience.
Regards,
Jon
On 2/12/2018 10:22 AM, Stephen C. Rose
