Re: [PEIRCE-L] Mind and Universe

2014-09-07 Thread Frederik Stjernfelt
Dear Stephen, Clark - I see your point. I regret there is not an e-book version available. But the paper version is pretty cheap - around $15. Best F Den 05/09/2014 kl. 18.29 skrev Clark Goble mailto:cl...@lextek.com>>: On Sep 5, 2014, at 10:19 AM, Stephen C. Rose mailto:stever...@gmail.com>

Re: [PEIRCE-L] Mind and Universe

2014-09-05 Thread Clark Goble
> On Sep 5, 2014, at 10:43 AM, Edwina Taborsky wrote: > > Clark - I got the paperback of the book, Natural Propositions, from Amazon > for $16.19. Oh whoops. I’d been looking at Diagrammology. Ugh. My bad. Please ignore everything I said. I’m a complete idiot - perils of trying to fit Peirce

Re: [PEIRCE-L] Mind and Universe

2014-09-05 Thread Stephen C. Rose
Peirce is Peirce and cannot be pegged to any philosopher though he seems to think in logic he and Leibnitz share commonality. As to outside and inside, whatever that is, Peirce even before he was a believer was willing to accept the possibility if a deity whose reality could (one day) be proved. In

Re: [PEIRCE-L] Mind and Universe

2014-09-05 Thread Clark Goble
> On Sep 5, 2014, at 10:29 AM, Edwina Taborsky wrote: > > No, Peirce was an Aristotelian not a Platonist or NeoPlatonist. The latter > proposes some power or force 'beyond or outside of being' - and Peirce > rejects this. And to define Peirce as a neo-Platonist because he read > Platonists su

Re: [PEIRCE-L] Mind and Universe

2014-09-05 Thread Clark Goble
> On Sep 5, 2014, at 10:19 AM, Stephen C. Rose wrote: > > Is there yet an online version of the book? I checked a while back and found > none but it makes sense to have texts available on Kindle as they can be read > on any device and online will be the permanence of texts in the future. There

Re: [PEIRCE-L] Mind and Universe

2014-09-05 Thread Edwina Taborsky
No, Peirce was an Aristotelian not a Platonist or NeoPlatonist. The latter proposes some power or force 'beyond or outside of being' - and Peirce rejects this. And to define Peirce as a neo-Platonist because he read Platonists such as Plotinus - is a weak argument. Equally, to define him as such

Re: [PEIRCE-L] Mind and Universe

2014-09-05 Thread Stephen C. Rose
Is there yet an online version of the book? I checked a while back and found none but it makes sense to have texts available on Kindle as they can be read on any device and online will be the permanence of texts in the future. There are other positive arguments as well. *@stephencrose