Re: [PEIRCE-L] Re: Pragmatic Maxims

2016-11-05 Thread kirstima
Jon, I could not agree more. Excellent, to my mind. Best regards, Kirsti Määttänen Jon Awbrey kirjoitti 4.11.2016 15:51: Jerry, List, Inquiry begins in Doubt and aims for Belief but the rush to get from D to B and achieve mental peace can cause us to short the integrated circuits of inquiry

Re: [PEIRCE-L] Metaphysics and Nothing (was Peirce's Cosmology)

2016-11-05 Thread kirstima
John, list, Everyone seems to take the Big Bang hypothesis as granted. Still, it is just a hypothesis with meagre, if any evidence. And John, a most interesting question you posed: Does anyone know if he had written anything about embedding our universe in a hypothetical space of higher

Re: [PEIRCE-L] Instinctive Reason and Metaphysics

2016-11-05 Thread Gary Richmond
Jon, Jeff, List, I too would find it most helpful, Jeff, if you would articulate what bearing you think CP 2.79 - 118 has on Peirce's later work, esp. the N.A. That could certainly help us move this discussion forward. On another topic, Jon wrote: [T]hose predictions are actually furnished by

[PEIRCE-L] Triadic Philosp[hy Amended

2016-11-05 Thread Stephen C. Rose
From BOUQUET. *Peirce: CP 8.278 Forgive the garrulity that comes of my eremitical * *life and God bless you!* Forgiveness is daisies uncountable. Forgiveness only comes forth when you ask. We are forgiven as we do forgive. Daisies abound at last. 2 Forgiveness is petals so gentle you will

Re: [PEIRCE-L] Metaphysics and Nothing (was Peirce's Cosmology)

2016-11-05 Thread Jerry Rhee
Dear list: I came across this portion of *Measure for Measure* by Shakespeare through Peirce's *Man's Glassy Essence*. I feel like this relates to the present discussion somehow but the exactness is lost on me. Not sure that a historicist reading is even possible. Any thoughts will be

[PEIRCE-L] Triadic Philosophy

2016-11-05 Thread Stephen C. Rose
From BOUQUET. Forgiveness is daisies uncountable. Forgiveness only comes forth when you ask. We are forgiven as we do forgive. Daisies abound at last. 2 Forgiveness is petals so gentle you will cry. Forgiveness is a view to grace your eye. Forgiveness freedom falling from the sky. 3 Cancel

Re: [PEIRCE-L] Metaphysics and Nothing (was Peirce's Cosmology)

2016-11-05 Thread Edwina Taborsky
Jon - you have missed my point. I said exactly the opposite of you when I said that people must read Peirce for themselves and come to their own conclusions. Instead, you have constantly, relentlessly, pointed out to me that I am quite wrong in my own conclusions; that I have misread and

Re: [PEIRCE-L] Metaphysics and Nothing (was Peirce's Cosmology)

2016-11-05 Thread Jon Alan Schmidt
Mike, List: I can definitely understand how some would find these discussions "tiresome," but almost simultaneously with your negative response, I received a private reply to the very same message from a "lurker" stating, "This is great, and offlist - just wanted you to know that I enjoyed this