RE: [PEIRCE-L] Re: Continuity, Generality, Infinity, Law, Synechism, etc.

2014-11-16 Thread John Collier
: Re: [PEIRCE-L] Re: Continuity, Generality, Infinity, Law, Synechism, etc. John - I'd certainly like to see the empirical evidence that concludes that IF you write a document out rather than cut-and-paste it, THEN, you will understand it better. And I'd like to see the empirical evidence

Re: [PEIRCE-L] Re: Continuity, Generality, Infinity, Law, Synechism, etc.

2014-11-16 Thread Edwina Taborsky
: Sunday, November 16, 2014 11:27 AM Subject: RE: [PEIRCE-L] Re: Continuity, Generality, Infinity, Law, Synechism, etc. Well, Edwina, I am not going to list specks of evidence, you need to read the literature. I got it primarily through studying distributed cognition, especially to teach

Re: [PEIRCE-L] Re: Continuity, Generality, Infinity, Law, Synechism, etc.

2014-11-15 Thread Kirsti Määttänen
Dear Mary, Thank you for the list of quotations from Collected Papers. -Most of those I have copied by hand, in handwriting, that is. Which is a part of my method in trying to get an exact, as good as possible undertanding of the writings in question. - Now CSP. Nowadays, people just copy

Re: [PEIRCE-L] Re: Continuity, Generality, Infinity, Law, Synechism, etc.

2014-11-15 Thread Edwina Taborsky
-L] Re: Continuity, Generality, Infinity, Law, Synechism, etc. Dear Mary, Thank you for the list of quotations from Collected Papers. -Most of those I have copied by hand, in handwriting, that is. Which is a part of my method in trying to get an exact, as good as possible undertanding

RE: [PEIRCE-L] Re: Continuity, Generality, Infinity, Law, Synechism, etc.

2014-11-15 Thread John Collier
: Re: [PEIRCE-L] Re: Continuity, Generality, Infinity, Law, Synechism, etc. Dear Kirsti, a CP-Quote i like very much: Man makes the word, and the word means nothing which the man has not made it mean, and that only to some man. But since man can think only by means of words or other external

Re: [PEIRCE-L] Re: Continuity, Generality, Infinity, Law, Synechism, etc.

2014-11-15 Thread Edwina Taborsky
: [PEIRCE-L] Re: Continuity, Generality, Infinity, Law, Synechism, etc. Stefan, List, That is indeed a good quote. It is on precisely that point that Putnam diverges from Peirce in his “brain in a vat” argument. He says “we determine meaning if anything does”. This leads him to his

RE: [PEIRCE-L] Re: Continuity, Generality, Infinity, Law, Synechism, etc.

2014-11-15 Thread Kirsti Määttänen
...@gmail.commailto:mary.liber...@gmail.com; Peirce List' Peirce-L@list.iupui.edumailto:Peirce-L@list.iupui.edu Sent: Saturday, November 15, 2014 10:36 AM Subject: Re: [PEIRCE-L] Re: Continuity, Generality, Infinity, Law, Synechism, etc. Dear Mary, Thank you for the list of quotations from

Re: [PEIRCE-L] Re: Continuity, Generality, Infinity, Law, Synechism, etc.

2014-11-15 Thread Edwina Taborsky
...@semiotikon.de Sent: Saturday, November 15, 2014 3:23 PM Subject: RE: [PEIRCE-L] Re: Continuity, Generality, Infinity, Law, Synechism, etc. It is a great misiunderstanding to take 'empirical' and 'objective' as synonyms. This common belief, however, has such a strong hold over most - many

Re: [PEIRCE-L] Re: Continuity, Generality, Infinity, Law, Synechism, etc.

2014-11-12 Thread Kirsti Määttänen
List, Jerry, you partly miss my point, partly not. My ongoing work deals with the interrelations between culture, society, groups and individuals. Triadic, diagammatical thinking is the tool I use. Well, an individual cell, mutatis mutandis, may be taken as something very similar to a human

RE: [PEIRCE-L] Re: Continuity, Generality, Infinity, Law, Synechism, etc.

2014-11-12 Thread Kirsti Määttänen
untill very late in his life. With thanks in advance -Original Message- From: Kirsti Määttänen [mailto:kirst...@saunalahti.fi] Sent: Tuesday, November 11, 2014 12:27 To: Jerry LR Chandler; Peirce List Subject: Re: [PEIRCE-L] Re: Continuity, Generality, Infinity, Law, Synechism, etc

[PEIRCE-L] Re: Continuity, Generality, Infinity, Law, Synechism, etc.

2014-11-12 Thread Michael DeLaurentis
- From: Kirsti Määttänen [mailto:kirst...@saunalahti.fi] Sent: Tuesday, November 11, 2014 12:27 To: Jerry LR Chandler; Peirce List Subject: Re: [PEIRCE-L] Re: Continuity, Generality, Infinity, Law, Synechism, etc. List, Jerry al. An interesting discussion seems to be going on. Jerry wrote

Re: [PEIRCE-L] Re: Continuity, Generality, Infinity, Law, Synechism, etc.

2014-11-11 Thread Jerry LR Chandler
List, Michael: On Nov 11, 2014, at 8:06 AM, Michael DeLaurentis wrote: Jerry -- It’s not that Peirce didn’t accept Cantorian set theory* [he did] – he didn’t think any aleph approached a true continuum [as he conceived it], just as any integer raised to the power of the integers [aleph

Re: [PEIRCE-L] Re: Continuity, Generality, Infinity, Law, Synechism, etc.

2014-11-11 Thread Kirsti Määttänen
Udell Cc: peirce-l@list.iupui.edu Subject: Re: [PEIRCE-L] Re: Continuity, Generality, Infinity, Law, Synechism, etc. Ben, list: On Nov 10, 2014, at 9:33 AM, Benjamin Udell wrote, quoting CSP: A true CONTINUUM (q. v.) is something whose possibilities of determination no multitude

[PEIRCE-L] Re: Continuity, Generality, Infinity, Law, Synechism, etc.

2014-11-10 Thread Jon Awbrey
Peircers, I was just about to copy out the whole of Peirce's Baldwin entry on Synechism (CP 6.169-173) to my blog for continued study when I found that Ben Udell had previously posted a copy here: ☞ http://permalink.gmane.org/gmane.science.philosophy.peirce/3531 I am finding much to think

Re: [PEIRCE-L] Re: Continuity, Generality, Infinity, Law, Synechism, etc.

2014-11-10 Thread Jerry LR Chandler
Ben, list: On Nov 10, 2014, at 9:33 AM, Benjamin Udell wrote, quoting CSP: A true CONTINUUM (q. v.) is something whose possibilities of determination no multitude of individuals can exhaust. A minor comment with respect to this definition of a continuum. The concept of can exhaust is a

RE: [PEIRCE-L] Re: Continuity, Generality, Infinity, Law, Synechism, etc.

2014-11-10 Thread Michael DeLaurentis
:59 AM To: Benjamin Udell Cc: peirce-l@list.iupui.edu Subject: Re: [PEIRCE-L] Re: Continuity, Generality, Infinity, Law, Synechism, etc. Ben, list: On Nov 10, 2014, at 9:33 AM, Benjamin Udell wrote, quoting CSP: A true C http://psychclassics.yorku.ca/Baldwin/Dictionary/defs/C4defs.htm

Re: [PEIRCE-L] Re: Continuity, Generality, Infinity, Law, Synechism, etc.

2014-11-10 Thread Jerry LR Chandler
LR Chandler [mailto:jerry_lr_chand...@me.com] Sent: Monday, November 10, 2014 11:59 AM To: Benjamin Udell Cc: peirce-l@list.iupui.edu Subject: Re: [PEIRCE-L] Re: Continuity, Generality, Infinity, Law, Synechism, etc. Ben, list: On Nov 10, 2014, at 9:33 AM, Benjamin Udell wrote

[PEIRCE-L] Re: Continuity, Generality, Infinity, Law, Synechism, etc.

2014-11-09 Thread Jon Awbrey
JA:http://permalink.gmane.org/gmane.science.philosophy.peirce/14919 HP:http://permalink.gmane.org/gmane.science.philosophy.peirce/14920 Thanks, Howard, I have a jumble of responses to your questions that I will try to organize later, but in casting about the web for e-lightenment I found the