List,
First, Peirce did not adress questions, which did not arise, or were
impossible during his time. Thus Prigogine did not bleong to his agenda.
Well, then what is Prigogine about, deep down. What are the
resemblances, what are the diffenrencies.
In physics, a problem has been how to combine wave view and particle
view. It has not succeeded, as far as I know.
These two present different theoretical viewpoints. One cannot look
simultaneously near and afar, for example. But one may learn from
looking , first near, then far. and vice versa.
Prigogine is all about waves. The essensce in waves lies in continuity.
And in continuining effects, which sometimes may beget unstable states.
But, like streaming water, which Prigogine uses as an everyday-testable-
example, it tends to reach a relatively stable state again.
Here we have nature! With its tendencies (i.e. habits).
In the spring a river may run wild, but it will settle down before
summer. - Then you may say, it is not because of the rive, it is because
of this and that. And even more.- There always will be more and more. -
Details!
CSp was a meticulous researcer, He studied the details very carefully.
But he always viewing the details (like residue in gravitaional
measurements) as tests in relation to his general philosophical theory.
His writings on gravitational pendulum measurements, for example, led
his way into grasping the meaning and signicance of thoeretical
vagueness. Which does not mean a mess or anythig like that.
It means that any theory must be open and fleksibile enough to adopt new
findings. Even ashtonining ones.
The truth is never here, it is always in a state of becoming.
Kirsti
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