RE: [PEIRCE-L] Peirce's Theory of Thinking

2016-10-01 Thread John Collier
ect: Re: [PEIRCE-L] Peirce's Theory of Thinking Hi everyone: "We can then (inductively) experiment with actual diamonds to find out whether, in fact, this is the case." Where is genuine doubt? Thanks, Jerry R On Wed, Sep 28, 2016 at 3:42 PM, Jon Alan Schmidt mailto:jonalanschm.

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2016-10-01 Thread Helmut Raulien
Ben, Gary, list, For an example of hypotheses that remain uncertain I want to mention hypotheses whose conclusions are not yet existing facts, but viabilities in the future. Like: "So this will work: .", like keynesianism in economics, or political decisions meant to solve certain problems. E

Re: [PEIRCE-L] Peirce's Theory of Thinking

2016-10-01 Thread Benjamin Udell
Gary R., list, I agree, a hypothesis may be uncertain yet still be helpful, although it's important for a contrite fallibilism in any science that the uncertainty, possible errors, etc., be examined and expressed. - Best, Ben On 10/1/2016 12:53 PM, Gary Richmond wrote: Ben, List, Thanks f

Re: [PEIRCE-L] Peirce's Theory of Thinking

2016-10-01 Thread Benjamin Udell
Jon S., list, Thanks, but I need to correct myself. I wrote, the scientific method is the inquiry method that, by its own account, can go wrong as well as right [End quote] I should say instead that the scientific method is the inquiry method in which inquiry, by its own account, can

Re: [PEIRCE-L] Peirce's Theory of Thinking

2016-10-01 Thread Gary Richmond
Ben, List, Thanks for this clarification. You wrote: Researchers need to be able to state that a hypothesis has been ruled out in plain enough words to keep communication clear because the scientific method is the inquiry method that, by its own account, can go wrong as well as right. They don't a

Re: [PEIRCE-L] Peirce's Theory of Thinking

2016-10-01 Thread Jon Alan Schmidt
Ben U., Gary R., List: You have both made some great points today. Peirce clearly considered economy of research to be an important purpose of methodeutic or speculative (i.e., theoretical) rhetoric. He even advocated, under certain circumstances, admitting a hypothesis that we *expect *to fail

Re: [PEIRCE-L] Peirce's Theory of Thinking

2016-10-01 Thread Benjamin Udell
Gary R., list, "Good" is traditionally taken as meaning "valid" or "justified" when applied to an inference. Valid deductions can conclude in falsehoods by vice of falsehood among the premisses, and we can see both critical and methodeutical kinds of justification of an abductive inference tha

Re: [PEIRCE-L] Peirce's Theory of Thinking

2016-10-01 Thread Gary Richmond
Ben wrote: "5.189 can't be regarded as a version, the best as Jerry R. has been urging, or otherwise, of the pragmatic maxim." Exactly. As Jon made clear, 5.189 has its value in critical logic and ought not be conflated with the PM. I have found Jerry's near obsession with 5.189 off putting so tha

Re: [PEIRCE-L] Peirce's Theory of Thinking

2016-10-01 Thread Benjamin Udell
Jon S., Gary R., Jerry R., list, I left one point murky; what I had failed to see clearly, until Jon S.'s remarks, was that 5.189 can't be regarded as a version, the best as Jerry R. has been urging, or otherwise, of the pragmatic maxim. - Best, Ben On 10/1/2016 11:20 AM, Benjamin Udell wrote:

Re: [PEIRCE-L] Peirce's Theory of Thinking

2016-10-01 Thread Gary Richmond
Ben, Jon, List, Ben, you commented: "An abductive inference may be good and successful in terms of the economics of inquiry, even if it turns out to conclude in a falsehood, if it nevertheless helps research by either making it positively fruitful (think of all the hypotheses that positively help

Re: [PEIRCE-L] Peirce's Theory of Thinking

2016-10-01 Thread Benjamin Udell
I left one point murky; what I had failed to see clearly, until Jon S.'s remarks, was that 5.189 can't be regarded as a version, the best as Jerry R. has been urging, or otherwise, of the pragmatic maxim. - Best, Ben On 10/1/2016 11:20 AM, Benjamin Udell wrote: Jon S., Gary R., list, Jon, yo

Re: [PEIRCE-L] Peirce's Theory of Thinking

2016-10-01 Thread Benjamin Udell
Jon S., Gary R., list, Jon, you wrote, CP 5.189 can and does produce hypotheses that "explain the facts," yet are /not/ "capable of experimental verification," and thus are /not/ admissible for subsequent deductive explication and inductive evaluation. In other words, an abduction t

Re: Re: Re: Re: [PEIRCE-L] Peirce's Theory of Thinking

2016-09-30 Thread Jerry Rhee
Dear all, Perhaps I ought to point out the elephant in the room. Despite your admission that: "*any *abduction whose resulting hypothesis passes the test of the PM and (ultimately) the other two stages of inquiry is a *good *abduction" why do disagreements persist and why are disputants unable

Re: Re: Re: Re: [PEIRCE-L] Peirce's Theory of Thinking

2016-09-30 Thread Gary Richmond
Jon, List, You wrote: I think that the discussion over the last several days has also very helpfully clarified the distinction between logical critic and methodeutic. In particular, CP 5.189 falls under logical critic and pertains *only *to abduction, while the PM--like pragmat[ic]ism itself--fal

Re: Re: Re: Re: [PEIRCE-L] Peirce's Theory of Thinking

2016-09-30 Thread Jerry Rhee
Jon, Gary, list and friends, In response to all those words, I say to you: one two three... *C A B*... *CP 5.189*... *as explanations of phenomena held as hopeful suggestions* STRANGER: That the dialectical method is no respecter of persons, and does not set the great above the small, but alway

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2016-09-30 Thread Jon Alan Schmidt
Gary R., List: Thanks for your kind words. I think that the discussion over the last several days has also very helpfully clarified the distinction between logical critic and methodeutic. In particular, CP 5.189 falls under logical critic and pertains *only *to abduction, while the PM--like prag

Re: Re: Re: Re: [PEIRCE-L] Peirce's Theory of Thinking

2016-09-30 Thread Gary Richmond
Jon, Helmut, List, Nice summary statement, Jon, which the quotation brings home. This discussion has been quite valuable for me as it clarified a matter which, as I noted in my initial post on the security/uberty question, has troubled me for some time. Perhaps most helpful was seeing that Houser

Re: Re: Re: Re: [PEIRCE-L] Peirce's Theory of Thinking

2016-09-30 Thread Jon Alan Schmidt
Helmut, List: The justification of abduction/retroduction (by itself) falls under logical critic, rather than methodeutic. However, pragmat[ic]ism as methodeutic tells us how abduction/retroduction fits within a complete inquiry--the justified hypotheses that it produces are admitted or rejected

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2016-09-30 Thread Helmut Raulien
    Supplement: Maybe all about this is said already earlier in this thread. I am slow with catching up. Jon, list, yes. So I was wrong assuming, that talking about abduction implies a deduction. Only talking about the justification of abduction (plausibility) does. Obviously abduction is som

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2016-09-30 Thread Helmut Raulien
Jon, list, yes. So I was wrong assuming, that talking about abduction implies a deduction. Only talking about the justification of abduction (plausibility) does. Obviously abduction is something personal/individual that escapes methodeutics. So the problem of uberty/security/abduction/deduction/p

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2016-09-30 Thread Jon Alan Schmidt
Helmut: I think that you are getting at what Peirce meant by *plausibility*, which indeed pertains to the justification of abduction. In your example, it is *plausible* that these white beans are from this bag that contains only white beans. On the other hand, it would obviously *not *be plausib

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2016-09-30 Thread Helmut Raulien
Jon, list,   you are of course right. I might replace the conclusion in the second statement with: "So for the observer person it seems possible that...". This would be a true statement, but still not a deduction, because the conclusion is not based on the premisses. I think, a deduction about a

Re: Re: [PEIRCE-L] Peirce's Theory of Thinking

2016-09-29 Thread Jerry Rhee
Helmut, list: I think you’ve said something profound. You said: "So making an abduction is not pragmaticism (given that pragmaticism is deductive). But talking about abduction is, because it includes a deduction." I think listers will object to your “abduction is not pragmaticism because

Re: Re: [PEIRCE-L] Peirce's Theory of Thinking

2016-09-29 Thread Jon Alan Schmidt
Helmut, List: I appreciate the comment, but I do not think that your example qualifies as a genuine deduction. It is not *necessarily* true that "it is possible that they are from the bag"; it might, in fact, be *impossible *for some reason, presumably having nothing to do with the color of the b

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2016-09-29 Thread Helmut Raulien
Dear list members, I am not sure if this helps: I think, to say: "All beans from the bag are white, these beans are white, so these beans are from the bag" is an abduction. But to say: "All beans from the bag are white, these beans are white, so it is possible that they are from the bag" is sort

Re: [PEIRCE-L] Peirce's Theory of Thinking

2016-09-28 Thread Jerry Rhee
Hi everyone: "We can then (inductively) experiment with actual diamonds to find out whether, in fact, this is the case." Where is genuine doubt? Thanks, Jerry R On Wed, Sep 28, 2016 at 3:42 PM, Jon Alan Schmidt wrote: > Clark, List: > > As (hopefully) clarified in my subsequent messages, I am

Re: [PEIRCE-L] Peirce's Theory of Thinking

2016-09-28 Thread Jon Alan Schmidt
Clark, List: As (hopefully) clarified in my subsequent messages, I am not saying that the PM itself is "deductive"; rather, it serves as the rule for admitting hypotheses to the deductive stage of inquiry once they have been produced and justified--because they plausibly account for the facts--by

Re: [PEIRCE-L] Peirce's Theory of Thinking

2016-09-28 Thread Jerry Rhee
Clark, list: I've had the same difficulty, myself, except I cannot make up my mind since I'm not even certain of the maxim to which is being referred. For instance, here is an even different pragmatic maxim; one that calls attention to making the speech outside of ourselves: "I have long ago com

Re: [PEIRCE-L] Peirce's Theory of Thinking

2016-09-28 Thread Clark Goble
> On Sep 28, 2016, at 7:55 AM, Jon Alan Schmidt > wrote: > > The PM pertains primarily to deduction (explication), not abduction; which is > why it contributes to security, but not to uberty. I wonder if another way > to highlight the distinction is to assign the PM to logical critic, but >

Re: [PEIRCE-L] Peirce's Theory of Thinking

2016-09-28 Thread Jerry Rhee
Jon, list: You pull that quote as if everything is self-evident. Yet, you never provide that certain maxim that is posed by pragmatism, as if that is understood. Yet, if you pose it, state it clearly, say it explicitly, express it out loud; you will discover that it is the wrong maxim. "...if o

Re: [PEIRCE-L] Peirce's Theory of Thinking

2016-09-28 Thread Jon Alan Schmidt
List: This passage conveniently lays out Peirce's views on what we have been discussing today. CSP: If you carefully consider the question of pragmatism you will see that it is nothing else than the question of the logic of abduction. That is, pragmatism proposes a certain maxim which, if sound

Re: [PEIRCE-L] Peirce's Theory of Thinking

2016-09-28 Thread Jerry Rhee
Jon, Gary, list: I do not see how we're back to anything at all about a complete inquiry when you have not spoken a whit on "beauty, upon moral virtue, or upon abstract truth, the three things that alone raise Humanity above Animality'" Best, Jerry R On Wed, Sep 28, 2016 at 10:39 AM, Jon Alan Sc

Re: [PEIRCE-L] Peirce's Theory of Thinking

2016-09-28 Thread Jon Alan Schmidt
Gary R., List: GR: As for your intriguing suggestion that the PM might better be placed in critical logic rather than methodeutic, well, I'll have to think about that. I'd be very interested, meanwhile, in what others on the list may think of your suggestion, one which I don't recall previously h

Re: [PEIRCE-L] Peirce's Theory of Thinking

2016-09-28 Thread Gary Richmond
Jon, List, Reading over our several posts on this topic it appears that we are in the main in agreement that the distinction between the PM and pragmaticism in its fullness ought not be conflated as, apparently, Houser has to some extent, for example, in his misquoting Peirce in the essay, replaci

Re: [PEIRCE-L] Peirce's Theory of Thinking

2016-09-28 Thread Jon Alan Schmidt
Gary R., List: GR: But, in fact, Peirce *does* call the pragmatic maxim (PM) the "rule of pragmatism" in this essay. Yes, but my point is that he does *not *call the PM the "rule of abduction"; so again, I am positing a distinction between Peirce's pragmatism (i.e., pragmaticism) as the "logic

Re: [PEIRCE-L] Peirce's Theory of Thinking

2016-09-27 Thread Jerry Rhee
Dear all: It would help this conversation if you state clearly which maxim of pragmatism to which you are referring. Because this one following...there is a severe flaw in it: Consider what effects, that might conceivably have practical bearings, we conceive the object of our conception to have.

Re: [PEIRCE-L] Peirce's Theory of Thinking

2016-09-27 Thread Gary Richmond
Jon, List, Jon, I think I am *tending* to agree with your conclusion, that "Houser's comment wrongly equates pragmatism with its maxim, when the latter is only one aspect of pragmat[ic]ism as a whole." On the other hand, you wrote: JS: "I have been mulling this over, and I keep landing on the tho

Re: [PEIRCE-L] Peirce's Theory of Thinking

2016-09-27 Thread Jerry Rhee
Jon, list: You said: "As you hinted, Houser's comment wrongly equates pragmatism with its maxim, when the latter is only one aspect of pragmat[ic]ism as a whole." What do you mean by *pragmaticism as a whole*? Is there a complete maxim of pragmaticism that is different from a complete maxim of p

Re: [PEIRCE-L] Peirce's Theory of Thinking

2016-09-27 Thread Jon Alan Schmidt
Gary R., List: GR: But what Peirce actually says in the article is that it is the pragmatic maxim, the "rule of 'pragmatism'," which "certainly aids our approximation to [the] security of reasoning. But it does not contribute to the uberty of reasoning, which far more calls for solicitous care" (

Re: [PEIRCE-L] Peirce's Theory of Thinking

2016-09-26 Thread Jerry Rhee
t;>> relations between signs, object and interpretants that we need to focus our >>> attention on in each of these areas of semiotics can be used to help steer >>> the inquiries. When it comes to matters of the assurance of different forms >>> of inference, I am d

Re: [PEIRCE-L] Peirce's Theory of Thinking

2016-09-26 Thread Stephen C. Rose
ion between the dynamical object >> and sign (typically the focus of inquiry in critical logic) and between the >> sign and normal interpretant (typically the focus of inquiry in >> methodeutic). My interpretative suggestion is that the relation between the >> dynamical obje

Re: [PEIRCE-L] Peirce's Theory of Thinking

2016-09-26 Thread Gary Richmond
y these two relations. As such, > the mediation involves a triadic relationship between the three dyadic > relations as well as a triadic relation between three triads. Gary F. has > indicated that he finds the diagrams I've offered hard to make out, so I > suspect that others might find the

Re: [PEIRCE-L] Peirce's Theory of Thinking

2016-09-26 Thread Jerry Rhee
Clark, Ben, Edwina, list: From your recent posts, I would say you are brightening the blind spot, albeit not directly with help of the *lanterna*. To that, your comments have not been explicit, merely implicit; indexed as “structure pretty similar to intuitions”, “common sensicalism”, *etc*., f

Re: [PEIRCE-L] Peirce's Theory of Thinking

2016-09-26 Thread Clark Goble
> On Sep 26, 2016, at 12:57 PM, Edwina Taborsky wrote: > > Clark, list - yes, I agree with you that one's beliefs about religion do > affect one's interpretation of the NA. After all, as Peirce wrote, we cannot > begin with an empty mind but begin with our beliefs. Jon, who self-describes > a

Re: [PEIRCE-L] Peirce's Theory of Thinking

2016-09-26 Thread Clark Goble
> On Sep 26, 2016, at 1:09 PM, Benjamin Udell wrote: > > Yes, methodeutical reasoning can itself be abductive, and if one builds a > house of abductive inferences none of which are quite compelling, then it's > guesswork, it could be a house of cards. > > In the end we base all our reasoning

Re: [PEIRCE-L] Peirce's Theory of Thinking

2016-09-26 Thread Benjamin Udell
Clark, list, I usually worry when I see a quote of myself from 2007 - I was often very wordy in those days but I didn't do too badly in that one. I think that I still agree with the things in your quote of me, except the first thing, that economy is as important as chance in the world. What

Re: [PEIRCE-L] Peirce's Theory of Thinking

2016-09-26 Thread Jon Alan Schmidt
e don't 'begin' our understandings with Peirce. > Many of us are aware of Plato and Aristotle - and after all, Peirce > described himself as heavily influenced by Aristotle. > > Edwina > > - Original Message ----- > *From:* Jon Alan Schmidt > *To:* Jeffrey

Re: [PEIRCE-L] Peirce's Theory of Thinking

2016-09-26 Thread Benjamin Udell
Clark, list, Yes, methodeutical reasoning can itself be abductive, and if one builds a house of abductive inferences none of which are quite compelling, then it's guesswork, it could be a house of cards. In the end we base all our reasoning on perceptual facts reached by abduction, insofar a

Re: [PEIRCE-L] Peirce's Theory of Thinking

2016-09-26 Thread Edwina Taborsky
age - From: Jon Alan Schmidt To: Jeffrey Brian Downard Cc: Peirce-L Sent: Monday, September 26, 2016 2:10 PM Subject: Re: [PEIRCE-L] Peirce's Theory of Thinking Jeff, List: Thank you for this helpful breakdown of different approaches to Peirce's writings. I

Re: [PEIRCE-L] Peirce's Theory of Thinking

2016-09-26 Thread Clark Goble
> On Sep 26, 2016, at 12:01 PM, Benjamin Udell wrote: > > Remember that in the Carnegie Application (1902) he said, "Methodeutic has a > special interest in abduction, or the inference which starts a scientific > hypothesis. For it is not sufficient that a hypothesis should be a > justifiable

Re: [PEIRCE-L] Peirce's Theory of Thinking

2016-09-26 Thread Clark Goble
> On Sep 26, 2016, at 12:13 PM, Benjamin Udell wrote: > > I'd like to emphasize again that it's a distinction that makes a difference: > methodeutical promise is not the same thing as plausibility or (instinctual) > assurance of truth. Many years ago here at peirce-l, Howard Callaway argued >

Re: [PEIRCE-L] Peirce's Theory of Thinking

2016-09-26 Thread Clark Goble
> On Sep 26, 2016, at 12:10 PM, Jon Alan Schmidt > wrote: > > Thank you for this helpful breakdown of different approaches to Peirce's > writings. I wonder if my dispute with Edwina earlier in this thread was > rooted in either misunderstanding or genuine disagreement between us about > whe

Re: [PEIRCE-L] Peirce's Theory of Thinking

2016-09-26 Thread Benjamin Udell
ke the diagrams clearer. --Jeff Jeffrey Downard Associate Professor Department of Philosophy Northern Arizona University (o) 928 523-8354 ________ From: Benjamin Udell [baud...@gmail.com] Sent: Sunday, September 25, 2016 12:15 PM To:peirce-l@list.iupui.edu Subjec

Re: [PEIRCE-L] Peirce's Theory of Thinking

2016-09-26 Thread Jon Alan Schmidt
essor > Department of Philosophy > Northern Arizona University > (o) 928 523-8354 > > -- > *From:* Clark Goble > *Sent:* Monday, September 26, 2016 9:37 AM > *To:* Peirce-L > *Subject:* Re: [PEIRCE-L] Peirce's Theory of Thinking > > On S

Re: [PEIRCE-L] Peirce's Theory of Thinking

2016-09-26 Thread Jerry Rhee
the first and second. Having > said that, he has written quite a lot on what it is to do the first or > second sort of thing well or poorly. > > > --Jeff > > > > Jeffrey Downard > Associate Professor > Department of Philosophy > Northern Arizona University > (

Re: [PEIRCE-L] Peirce's Theory of Thinking

2016-09-26 Thread Benjamin Udell
continue to look at the textual support for this interpretative hypothesis--and I'll see what might be done to make the diagrams clearer. --Jeff Jeffrey Downard Associate Professor Department of Philosophy Northern Arizona University (o) 928 523-8354 ________________

Re: [PEIRCE-L] Peirce's Theory of Thinking

2016-09-26 Thread Jeffrey Brian Downard
From: Clark Goble Sent: Monday, September 26, 2016 9:37 AM To: Peirce-L Subject: Re: [PEIRCE-L] Peirce's Theory of Thinking On Sep 26, 2016, at 10:11 AM, Jeffrey Brian Downard mailto:jeffrey.down...@nau.edu>> wrote: I, too, assume we're discussing what Peirce th

Re: [PEIRCE-L] Peirce's Theory of Thinking

2016-09-26 Thread Clark Goble
> On Sep 26, 2016, at 10:11 AM, Jeffrey Brian Downard > wrote: > > I, too, assume we're discussing what Peirce thought, rather than what we > variously may think for our own parts. I do think it’s worth asking how the argument itself fares given the social changes in the intervening century

RE: [PEIRCE-L] Peirce's Theory of Thinking

2016-09-26 Thread Jeffrey Brian Downard
nd that the hypothesis is sufficient to explain all that was, initially, quite surprising. --Jeff Jeffrey Downard Associate Professor Department of Philosophy Northern Arizona University (o) 928 523-8354 From: Benjamin Udell <mailto:baud...@gmail.com> Sent: Sunday, September 25, 2016 9:5

Re: [PEIRCE-L] Peirce's Theory of Thinking

2016-09-25 Thread Jerry Rhee
hat > the surprising character fades the more worthy it is of our confidence does > suggest that the fit is one with a large system of our other beliefs that > are relatively well settled as habits--and that the hypothesis is > *sufficient* to explain all that was, initially, quite s

Re: [PEIRCE-L] Peirce's Theory of Thinking

2016-09-25 Thread Benjamin Udell
is /sufficient/ to explain all that was, initially, quite surprising. --Jeff Jeffrey Downard Associate Professor Department of Philosophy Northern Arizona University (o) 928 523-8354 *From:* Benjamin Udell *Sent:* Sunday, September 25, 2016 9:50 AM *To:* peirce-l@list.iupui.edu *Subject:*

Re: [PEIRCE-L] Peirce's Theory of Thinking

2016-09-25 Thread Jeffrey Brian Downard
Udell Sent: Sunday, September 25, 2016 9:50 AM To: peirce-l@list.iupui.edu Subject: Re: [PEIRCE-L] Peirce's Theory of Thinking Jeff D., Gary R., list, Your quote from "A Neglected Argument..." bears on plausibility, which Peirce elsewhere in the same essay discusses as natural, ins

Re: [PEIRCE-L] Peirce's Theory of Thinking

2016-09-25 Thread Benjamin Udell
Jeff D., Gary R., list, Your quote from "A Neglected Argument..." bears on plausibility, which Peirce elsewhere in the same essay discusses as natural, instinctual simplicity; it bears upon assurance by instinct; I don't find him discussing methodeutical justification (e.g., testability) of ab

Re: [PEIRCE-L] Peirce's Theory of Thinking

2016-09-24 Thread Jeffrey Brian Downard
Professor Department of Philosophy Northern Arizona University (o) 928 523-8354 From: Gary Richmond Sent: Friday, September 23, 2016 10:56 AM To: Peirce-L Subject: Re: [PEIRCE-L] Peirce's Theory of Thinking Ben, Jeff, List, Ben, I think your '

Re: [PEIRCE-L] Peirce's Theory of Thinking

2016-09-24 Thread Benjamin Udell
le to me--so long as we grow to appreciate the Beauty, Goodness and Truth of its Divine character. --Jeff Jeffrey Downard Associate Professor Department of Philosophy Northern Arizona University (o) 928 523-8354 ____________________ *From: Gary Richmond Sent: Friday, Septe

Re: [PEIRCE-L] Peirce's Theory of Thinking

2016-09-23 Thread CLARK GOBLE
> On Sep 23, 2016, at 2:24 PM, Eugene Halton wrote: > > And what if you allowed yourself to enter the realm of musement > and found your Indo-European or related noun-centered language left behind? A > realm where your noun-God, your concept-God, could not enter? You have > entere

Re: [PEIRCE-L] Peirce's Theory of Thinking

2016-09-23 Thread Jerry Rhee
September 23, 2016 4:24 PM > *Subject:* Re: [PEIRCE-L] Peirce's Theory of Thinking > > I sent the post below on Sept 19 when there was some discussion of > musement, but it appears it did not go thru so I'm posting again. Apologies > if it did go thru the first time. Gene H

Re: [PEIRCE-L] Peirce's Theory of Thinking

2016-09-23 Thread Edwina Taborsky
Excellent, Eugene - that's exactly how Peirce described the dynamic semiosis of the universe/Mind. Edwina - Original Message - From: Eugene Halton To: Peirce List Sent: Friday, September 23, 2016 4:24 PM Subject: Re: [PEIRCE-L] Peirce's Theory of Thinking I sen

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2016-09-23 Thread Helmut Raulien
- From: Helmut Raulien To: jeffrey.down...@nau.edu Cc: Gary Richmond ; Peirce-L Sent: Friday, September 23, 2016 3:28 PM Subject: Aw: RE: [PEIRCE-L] Peirce's Theory of Thinking   Jeff, list, you wrote: " Whether we call that embodied system of Ideas and Ideals "Nature&quo

Re: [PEIRCE-L] Peirce's Theory of Thinking

2016-09-23 Thread Eugene Halton
I sent the post below on Sept 19 when there was some discussion of musement, but it appears it did not go thru so I'm posting again. Apologies if it did go thru the first time. Gene H …and musement musings… Peirce’s “The play of musement” is a beautiful way of putting it. It is a por

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2016-09-23 Thread Jerry Rhee
<http://h.raul...@gmx.de> > *To:* jeffrey.down...@nau.edu > *Cc:* Gary Richmond <http://gary.richm...@gmail.com> ; Peirce-L > <http://peirce-l@list.iupui.edu> > *Sent:* Friday, September 23, 2016 3:28 PM > *Subject:* Aw: RE: [PEIRCE-L] Peirce's Theory of Thinki

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2016-09-23 Thread Helmut Raulien
Raulien To: jeffrey.down...@nau.edu Cc: Gary Richmond ; Peirce-L Sent: Friday, September 23, 2016 3:28 PM Subject: Aw: RE: [PEIRCE-L] Peirce's Theory of Thinking   Jeff, list, you wrote: " Whether we call that embodied system of Ideas and Ideals "Nature" or "

Re: RE: [PEIRCE-L] Peirce's Theory of Thinking

2016-09-23 Thread Jerry Rhee
he latter term > [divine character] means and the first three - I think need some > clarification, at least, in my view. > > Edwina > > - Original Message - > *From:* Helmut Raulien > *To:* jeffrey.down...@nau.edu > *Cc:* Gary Richmond ; Peirce-L > > *Sent:*

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2016-09-23 Thread Edwina Taborsky
frey.down...@nau.edu Cc: Gary Richmond ; Peirce-L Sent: Friday, September 23, 2016 3:28 PM Subject: Aw: RE: [PEIRCE-L] Peirce's Theory of Thinking Jeff, list, you wrote: " Whether we call that embodied system of Ideas and Ideals "Nature" or "God" matters li

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2016-09-23 Thread Helmut Raulien
he case. As such, it is a reasonable hypothesis. Is the same true of the alternate hypotheses? --Jeff Jeffrey Downard Associate Professor Department of Philosophy Northern Arizona University (o) 928 523-8354 From: Jon Alan Schmidt [jonalanschm...

Re: [PEIRCE-L] Peirce's Theory of Thinking

2016-09-23 Thread Jerry Rhee
Jeffrey Downard > Associate Professor > Department of Philosophy > Northern Arizona University > (o) 928 523-8354 > > From: Gary Richmond [gary.richm...@gmail.com] > Sent: Friday, September 23, 2016 10:56 AM > To: Peirce-L > Subj

RE: [PEIRCE-L] Peirce's Theory of Thinking

2016-09-23 Thread Jeffrey Brian Downard
ese is the case. As such, it is a reasonable hypothesis. Is the same true of the alternate hypotheses? --Jeff Jeffrey Downard Associate Professor Department of Philosophy Northern Arizona University (o) 928 523-8354 ________________________ From: Jon Alan Schmidt [jonalanschm...@gm

Re: [PEIRCE-L] Peirce's Theory of Thinking

2016-09-23 Thread Gary Richmond
on "The > Neglected Argument" is a sustained effort to show that neither of these is > the case. As such, it is a reasonable hypothesis. Is the same true of the > alternate hypotheses? > > --Jeff > > Jeffrey Downard > Associate Professor > Department of Phil

Re: [PEIRCE-L] Peirce's Theory of Thinking

2016-09-23 Thread Benjamin Udell
ame true of the alternate hypotheses? --Jeff Jeffrey Downard Associate Professor Department of Philosophy Northern Arizona University (o) 928 523-8354 From: Jon Alan Schmidt [jonalanschm...@gmail.com] Sent: Wednesday, September 21, 2016

Re: [PEIRCE-L] Peirce's Theory of Thinking

2016-09-23 Thread Benjamin Udell
head> Dear Ben N., list, Let's also thank Gary Fuhrman for being more optimistic than I was about whether past CD-ROM customers could still obtain online subscriptions to InteLex even today. I subsequently contacted InteLex and the person there confirmed that that is still the policy. Quote

Re: [PEIRCE-L] Peirce's Theory of Thinking

2016-09-22 Thread Clark Goble
> On Sep 22, 2016, at 3:09 AM, Ben Novak wrote: > > I went to Craigslist where I found a laptop with a Vista operating system, > called the seller, and drove 50 miles to test it out. It worked like a charm. > For $70, and a hundred miles worth of gasoline, I have my Intelex investment > back.

Re: [PEIRCE-L] Peirce's Theory of Thinking

2016-09-22 Thread Ben Novak
; to be desired. It is not just that the arguments are bad, but they are bad > in a particular egregious kind of way--or so it seems to me. > > --Jeff > > Jeffrey Downard > Associate Professor > Department of Philosophy > Northern Arizona University > (o) 928 523-8354 &g

RE: [PEIRCE-L] Peirce's Theory of Thinking

2016-09-21 Thread Jeffrey Brian Downard
sity (o) 928 523-8354 From: Edwina Taborsky [tabor...@primus.ca] Sent: Wednesday, September 21, 2016 2:53 PM To: Jeffrey Brian Downard; Peirce-L Subject: Re: [PEIRCE-L] Peirce's Theory of Thinking Jeffrey - I have a few problems with your analysis. I'll c

Re: [PEIRCE-L] Peirce's Theory of Thinking

2016-09-21 Thread Jerry Rhee
To: "Peirce-L" > Sent: Wednesday, September 21, 2016 5:06 PM > Subject: RE: [PEIRCE-L] Peirce's Theory of Thinking > > > Hello Jon, List, > > The argument you are trying to reconstruct could be fleshed out more fully > in a number of ways. Here are a few suggestion

Re: [PEIRCE-L] Peirce's Theory of Thinking

2016-09-21 Thread Edwina Taborsky
Jeffrey - I have a few problems with your analysis. I'll comment below: - Original Message - From: "Jeffrey Brian Downard" To: "Peirce-L" Sent: Wednesday, September 21, 2016 5:06 PM Subject: RE: [PEIRCE-L] Peirce's Theory of Thinking Hello Jon, List,

Re: [PEIRCE-L] Peirce's Theory of Thinking

2016-09-21 Thread Jon Alan Schmidt
Edwina, List: ET: The format of the argument may be logical but its conclusion may be irrelevant; i.e., it may be logical but its content may be false. Of course--just like every scientific hypothesis. Regards, Jon Alan Schmidt - Olathe, Kansas, USA Professional Engineer, Amateur Philosopher,

RE: [PEIRCE-L] Peirce's Theory of Thinking

2016-09-21 Thread Jeffrey Brian Downard
osophy Northern Arizona University (o) 928 523-8354 From: Jon Alan Schmidt [jonalanschm...@gmail.com] Sent: Wednesday, September 21, 2016 12:24 PM To: Peirce-L Subject: Re: [PEIRCE-L] Peirce's Theory of Thinking List: Based on what Peirce wrote in R 842 .

Re: [PEIRCE-L] Peirce's Theory of Thinking

2016-09-21 Thread Edwina Taborsky
er 21, 2016 3:24 PM Subject: Re: [PEIRCE-L] Peirce's Theory of Thinking List: Based on what Peirce wrote in R 842 ... CSP: Taking the general description of it as a minor premiss, and a certain theory of logic as a major premiss, it will follow by a simple syllogism that

Re: [PEIRCE-L] Peirce's Theory of Thinking

2016-09-21 Thread Jon Alan Schmidt
List: Based on what Peirce wrote in R 842 ... CSP: Taking the general description of it as a minor premiss, and a certain theory of logic as a major premiss, it will follow by a simple syllogism that the humble argument is logical and that consequently whoever acknowledges its premisses need hav

Re: [PEIRCE-L] Peirce's Theory of Thinking

2016-09-21 Thread Jerry Rhee
. > > Edwina > > - Original Message - > *From:* Ben Novak > *To:* Peirce-L > *Sent:* Tuesday, September 20, 2016 6:09 AM > *Subject:* Re: [PEIRCE-L] Peirce's Theory of Thinking > > Dear List: > > Fifteen or sixteen years ago, I had the Intelex Past

Re: [PEIRCE-L] Peirce's Theory of Thinking

2016-09-20 Thread Benjamin Udell
Ben N., list, Ben N., you wrote, It is not worth going further into why--unless someone knows a way to get around the disabling of Intelex CDs as a result of their change. [end quote] The old InteLex CD-ROMs became unusable not because of being disabled by InteLex but because of chang

Re: [PEIRCE-L] Peirce's Theory of Thinking

2016-09-20 Thread Edwina Taborsky
, September 20, 2016 6:09 AM Subject: Re: [PEIRCE-L] Peirce's Theory of Thinking Dear List: Fifteen or sixteen years ago, I had the Intelex Past Masters version of the works of Peirce, and often have reason to recall a passage where Peirce explicitly talks about the importanc

Re: [PEIRCE-L] Peirce's Theory of Thinking

2016-09-20 Thread Edwina Taborsky
--- Original Message - From: Ben Novak To: Peirce-L Sent: Tuesday, September 20, 2016 6:09 AM Subject: Re: [PEIRCE-L] Peirce's Theory of Thinking Dear List: Fifteen or sixteen years ago, I had the Intelex Past Masters version of the works of Peirce, and often have reason

Re: [PEIRCE-L] Peirce's Theory of Thinking

2016-09-20 Thread Eugene Halton
…and musement musing… Peirce’s “The play of musement” is a beautiful way of putting it. It is a portal to a way of opening one’s body soul mind to experience. But what if, on entering that realm of spontaneity and freedom through the “play of musement” portal, one begins to realize the

Re: [PEIRCE-L] Peirce's Theory of Thinking

2016-09-20 Thread Edwina Taborsky
ginal Message - From: Jerry Rhee To: Clark Goble Cc: Peirce-L Sent: Monday, September 19, 2016 2:52 PM Subject: Re: [PEIRCE-L] Peirce's Theory of Thinking Dear list: What you say sounds all well and good but I’m confused.

RE: [PEIRCE-L] Peirce's Theory of Thinking

2016-09-20 Thread gnox
m your browser to your clipboard and paste it into an email message (if the message will get sent in HTML format). Gary f. From: Ben Novak [mailto:trevriz...@gmail.com] Sent: 20-Sep-16 06:10 To: Peirce-L Subject: Re: [PEIRCE-L] Peirce's Theory of Thinking Dear List: Fifteen

Re: [PEIRCE-L] Peirce's Theory of Thinking

2016-09-20 Thread Ben Novak
gt;> >> Edwina >> >> - Original Message - >> *From:* Jerry Rhee >> *To:* Clark Goble >> *Cc:* Peirce-L >> *Sent:* Monday, September 19, 2016 2:52 PM >> *Subject:* Re: [PEIRCE-L] Peirce's Theory of Thinking >> >> De

Re: [PEIRCE-L] Peirce's Theory of Thinking

2016-09-19 Thread Jerry Rhee
it Tolstoy who said that 'wrong does not cease to be wrong just > because the majority shares in it'... > > Edwina > > - Original Message - > *From:* Jerry Rhee > *To:* Clark Goble > *Cc:* Peirce-L > *Sent:* Monday, September 19, 2016 2:52 PM > *S

Re: [PEIRCE-L] Peirce's Theory of Thinking

2016-09-19 Thread Benjamin Udell
Clark, Edwina, list, Clark, you wrote, "Later process theologians were explicitly influenced by Peirce despite many of Peirce’s writings being difficult to find at the time." It seems a good bet that this was because Charles Hartshorne, who, along with Paul Weiss, edited the Collected Papers

Re: [PEIRCE-L] Peirce's Theory of Thinking

2016-09-19 Thread Edwina Taborsky
ase to be wrong just because the majority shares in it'... Edwina - Original Message - From: Jerry Rhee To: Clark Goble Cc: Peirce-L Sent: Monday, September 19, 2016 2:52 PM Subject: Re: [PEIRCE-L] Peirce's Theory of Thinking Dear list: What you say so

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