Gary,
Thank you for the explanation. It is the best I have heard by far when I
voice this concern, so I have pondered it for a bit. I guess what you are
describing as a "cenoscopic claim" still fits what I would call an
"empirical claim," broadly speaking. As you put it: He is making an claim
Thank you, Gary! In my blog I still am busy trying to classify the kinds of hierarchies after the categories. That is a bit complicated, because categories have subcategories, and a lot of kinds of hierarchies result, as well as parts of holarchies (composed parts), as as classes too. As basis I
Helmut, yes, “self-control” is almost an English translation of the Greek root
of “autonomy.” And yes, I do see a tension between individual self-control and
control of the individual by external agencies or subordination to the
community. In fact this is one of the major themes of my book
Gary f., list,
"self-control is reasonableness": This reminds me of Kants critique of pure reason, if you replace "self-control" with autonomy. So- is there always if not to say a war, a competition between the individual´s autonomy, and heteronomy, that is between self-control and
Eric (and list),
I don’t believe that Peirce is making an empirical claim here, i.e. he is not
claiming that his generalization is true because it is based on observation of
a large sample of individuals. He is making a cenoscopic claim, i.e. describing
his own experience and assuming that
Dear Edwina,
Yes, the finding is astounding, and has changed the understanding of
the earliest transitions to domestication. But your doubt that hunter
gatherers built these sculptures is based on some ideology without
evidence, and contradicts not only Klaus Schmidt, but a number of other
There are some arguments about making ourselves more reasonable. They
derive in some respects from Peirce's fundamental assertions regarding
dualism and nominalism, both of which are less reasonable than thinking
based on triadic principles and inferences. I am sure others are
well-versed in
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Gene- I doubt that hunter-gatherers built these sculptures; it would
have been a two-class societal order, with a 'godly elite' so to
speak, to order the many 'workers' required to carry out the task.
This would also
Coming in late, but
I'm never quite sure what to think when Peirce starts making (seemingly)
flippant claims about the universal nature of men's psychological states.
At the end here, he says:
"That is, the man *can,* or if you please is *compelled,* to *make his life
more reasonable.* "
It
Dear Edwina,
Re "myth of control of nature." 11,000 years ago hunter gatherers
built the first monumental sculptures, 4 to 5 meters tall, 5 to ten tons
each, of human forms, at Göbekli Tepe in southern Turkey, where some of the
earliest domesticated grains from the same time period were found
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Gene - please see my comments below:
On Sun 01/10/17 6:33 PM , Eugene Halton eugene.w.halto...@nd.edu
sent:
Dear Edwina, The evidence contradicts a number of your claims.
1] Edwina: "Most tribal economies are focused
Gary F. Interesting way of moving toward the notion that Peirce did have a
general sense of what constitutes goodness or the sum of values. His
passing denigration of the 19th-century culture of greed and his implicit
allegiance to Christ's values over the creedal church seem to argue for a
No, I'm not saying that at all.
What I am saying is that many of us, either often or sometimes, are
'informationally frozen'. Our 'reasoning' functions within a 'bad
reasoning', i.e., within degenerate Thirdness, as evinced in the
types of 'reasoning' found in that derived
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