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

2016-11-09 Thread Edwina Taborsky
John FS; thanks for your comments. See mine below. 1] ET I wish we could get into the analysis of time in more detail. JFS: I came across a short passage by Gregory Bateson that clarifies the issues. See the attached Bateson79.jpg, which is an excerpt from p. 2 of a book on

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

2016-11-09 Thread Jon Alan Schmidt
John, List: My initial thought when I read your post was that your identification of three different "kinds of time" might align nicely with the points of view of the three Categories that Nicholas Guardiano adopted to analyze Peirce's cosmogony in the paper that I linked yesterday in the thread

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

2016-11-09 Thread Jon Awbrey
Jeff, Topology is the most general study of geometric space. It is critical here to get beyond the “popular” accounts and learn the basics from a real math book. A classic introduction is General Topology by J.L. Kelley but there are lots of equally good choices out there. Jon

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

2016-11-09 Thread Jeffrey Brian Downard
John Sowa, Jon Awbrey, Edwina, List, I wanted to see if anyone have might suggestions for thinking about the analogy between (1) mathematical models of the differentiation of spaces starting with a vague continuum of undifferentiated dimensions and trending towards spaces having determinate

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

2016-11-09 Thread Jerry Rhee
Dear list: From Aristotle, *Physics*: “But we apprehend time only when we have marked motion, marking it by ‘before’ and ‘after’; and it is only when we have perceived ‘before’ and ‘after’ in motion that we say that time has elapsed. Now we mark them by judging that A and B are different,

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

2016-11-09 Thread Edwina Taborsky
George Herbert Spencer? What was I thinking? I meant George Spencer Brown. Edwina - PEIRCE-L subscribers: Click on "Reply List" or "Reply All" to REPLY ON PEIRCE-L to this message. PEIRCE-L posts should go to peirce-L@list.iupui.edu . To UNSUBSCRIBE, send a

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

2016-11-09 Thread Edwina Taborsky
John FS; thanks for your comments. See mine below. 1] ET I wish we could get into the analysis of time in more detail. JFS: I came across a short passage by Gregory Bateson that clarifies the issues. See the attached Bateson79.jpg, which is an excerpt from p. 2 of a book on

[PEIRCE-L] Time Is (was metaphysics of nothing)

2016-11-09 Thread Jon Awbrey
John, Edwina, List, Sorry to be so brief again, but trying to understand inquiry and semiosis in general as temporal processes is one of the things that forced me to develop differential logic as an extension of propositional logic, for which I naturally turned to Peirce's logical graphs as a

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

2016-11-09 Thread John F Sowa
Edwina, Kirsti, list, ET I wish we could get into the analysis of time in more detail. I came across a short passage by Gregory Bateson that clarifies the issues. See the attached Bateson79.jpg, which is an excerpt from p. 2 of a book on biosemiotics (see below). Following is the critical