Stephen Rose, excellent comment!
It boils down to the conventional versus the arbitrary. The central problem
would seem to be when is and when is not the conventional convertible with
the arbitrary, i.e., the conventional notion of a person, whether man or
God, becoming an arbitrary sign like
Gary F., List,
I think the argument at 6.303 rehearses Peirce's larger argumentative strategy,
which is to draw on the formal relations examined in the phenomenology and the
kinds of signs and principles of inference studied in logic as basis for
setting up the principles of metaphysics. Once
Boler's book is excellent - highly recommended!
Peter
From: Gary Moore [peirce-l@list.iupui.edu]
Sent: Saturday, June 21, 2014 5:09 PM
To: Daniel Brunson; peirce-l@list.iupui.edu
Subject: Re: [PEIRCE-L]
Thank you! I ordered it.
GCM
On Saturday, June 21, 2014
List,
And that *urge* which the poets point to (see Jon's and Eugene's posts),
that *creative urge,* is not, as I see, only a matter of creation within
the world once the cosmos has itself been brought into being, but that urge
brings into being the very cosmos itself. That is, it's not just a
Thank you! Since I have little money, this reassurance is very welcome! I would
have ordered the book if I had run across it at Amazon because it hits upon
both Peirce and Scotus, both of whom are of great interest to me. And Scotus is
relevant to the current theological discussion since Scotus
Gary M., List,
In case you didn't know, Jstor.org changed their policy about a year ago and
now allows anyone to read full articles free of charge. The free membership—you
just need to sign up—is restricted access: you can't download, but only read
online, and you can only put four articles on
I wrote:
you can only put four articles on your shelf, and there's a minimum period
an article must stay on your shelf.
Correction only three articles
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I wrote:
you can only put four articles on your shelf, and there's a minimum period
an article must stay on your shelf.
Correction only three articles on your shelf and each must stay 14 days. So
choose wisely. When I'm maxed out I'll browse on jstor then see if I can find
the article
My experience with NA has lead me to similar understandings. If God and love
are synonymous terms, as even many fundamentalists will agree. And if love
(justice) are Real forces as Peirce says, then love and/or God is (or can be)
physically efficient. The future effects of said efficiency rely
Here is William James in his lecture Is Life Worth Living? on the urge y'all
are speaking of.
Is it not sheer dogmatic folly to say that our inner interests can have no
real connection with the forces that the hidden world may contain? In other
cases divinations based on inner interests have
List,
I've copied below a few excerpts from Terry Eagleton's book, Reason, Faith,
and Revolution: Reflections on the God Debate, a work I've referred to on
the list in the past when we've gotten into this sort of discussion. I've
given each snippet a heading pointing to the topic being discussed.
On Jun 22, 2014, at 9:44 PM, Edwina Taborsky tabor...@primus.ca wrote:
If I may lift a quote:
What, in short, has the authority to debar us from trusting our religious
demands? Science as such assuredly has no authority, for she can only say
what is, not what is not; and the agnostic
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