Thank you, Jon for bringing up your "Seven major variations..."
In it you take up with excellent clarity seven perspectives upon the
Maxim, from the standpoint of a philospher. Mentioning year with each
quote is very informative in respect of development of CSP's main
interests and aims.
How
Kirsti, List ...
I did once collect seven major variations on the theme:
Pragmatic Maxim
Seven Ways of Looking at a Pragmatic Maxim
https://inquiryintoinquiry.com/2008/08/07/pragmatic-maxim/
Plus a sample of previous discussions:
https://inquiryintoinquiry.com/?s=Pragmatic+Maxim
Regards,
Jon
Thanks, Gary, Kirsti,
I haven't been able to do more than randomly sample
the doings on the Peirce List for the last half year,
being deeply immersed in other Peirce work that I hope
to report on eventually, but Jon Alan's remarks on the
Pragmatic Maxim drew me back in for a bit. He recited
one
Jon,
I could not agree more. Excellent, to my mind.
Best regards,
Kirsti Määttänen
Jon Awbrey kirjoitti 4.11.2016 15:51:
Jerry, List,
Inquiry begins in Doubt and aims for Belief but the rush
to get from D to B and achieve mental peace can cause us
to short the integrated circuits of inquiry
Jon, other Jon, Gary, list:
Thank you for your support of other Jon. This would mean that you think CP
5.189 is not a pragmatic maxim also, because it belongs to what you both
classify as "logical critic”, the definition of which I suspect is clear to
you both. For in that definition, “logica
Jon, Jerry, List,
Jon, I concur with your assessment.
Best,
Gary R
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On Fri, Nov 4, 2016 at 3:01 PM, Jon Alan Schmidt
Jon, other Jon, list:
Thank you for that sobering thought.
"But that is an accusation that applies to both of us. These are claims
that must be decided by the rights of the question.
In order to move forward, we must make the rules clear at the outset.
What I list are reasons to suspect..."
Jerry R.:
You make CP 5.189 sound mystical, which it is not. You offer it as a
candidate for "the [best] pragmatic maxim," which it is not. You want us
to treat you as a "co-inquirer," which you are not--you are a *dogmatist*,
and CP 5.189 is your creed. I already gave my reasons; please re-rea
Jon, list:
You make pragmaticism sound mystical, which it is not.
What is plainer than to say that CP 5.189 is the one to which we ought to
look; the one to read again and again before you move on to the others?
For if the purpose is to select one over the lessers in order to spread
pragmatic
Jerry, List,
Inquiry begins in Doubt and aims for Belief but the rush
to get from D to B and achieve mental peace can cause us
to short the integrated circuits of inquiry that we need
to Compute Better Answers.
For one thing, we sometimes operate under the influence
of fixed ideas and hidden ass
Dear list:
with apologies...
I meant "from the start no better than a vegetable".
Best,
Jerry R
On Thu, Nov 3, 2016 at 4:28 PM, Jerry Rhee wrote:
> Jon, list:
>
> Thank you for that earnest answer.
> Still, can there not be a strongest argument?
> That is, an argument that is the best given
Jon, list:
Thank you for that earnest answer.
Still, can there not be a strongest argument?
That is, an argument that is the best given the number of existing
possibilities that are presented explicitly; a choice among them that is
based on our valuation for likeness between terms?
And if we were
Jerry, List,
I tend to think more in relative terms than absolute terms,
so I would not expect to find an absolute best formulation
of any core principle in philosophy, science, or even math.
But taken relative to specific interpreters and objectives
we frequently find that symbolic expressions o
Thanks, Jon A.,
I remember reading these on your blog years ago. Very helpful, including
your comments.
Best,
Gary R
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Jon, list:
How do you assess whether a pragmatic maxim is good or bad?
"For logic is, in the main, criticism of reasoning as good or bad."
"There is in the dictionary a word, *solipsism*, meaning the belief that
the believer is the only existing person. Were anybody to adopt such a
belief, it mi
Peircers,
Here is a set of variations on the Pragmatic Maxim
that I collected a number of years ago, along with
some commentary of my own as I last left it. As I
understand them, they all say essentially the same
thing, merely differing in emphasis, point of view,
or rhetorical style as befit th
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