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

Edwina, Jon A, Jeff, Jerry, Jon AS, Kirsti, This topic has so many ramifications that it's impossible to say anything complete and definitive. The observation I considered important was Bateson's remark about stories as a natural way for minds or quasi-minds to think, talk, and reason about

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

Hi Jon A, John S, List, Thanks for the reference, Jon. I've found a number of texts to be helpful, including Allen Hatcher's Algebraic Topology, which is online and free. It was recommended by a professor named Wildberger who has a course on Youtube on the subject. Having said that, there is

[PEIRCE-L] Topology, Differential Logic, Logical Graphs

Jeff, List, One of the reasons I like Kelley is that it has an appendix on set theory where I got my first real taste of axiomatic set theory. I posted excerpts from the appendix and the main text to several discussion groups early in the present millennium and I archived copies of those notes

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

John, list, Most important points you take up, John. Time-sequences between stories do not apply. - The big-bang is just a story,one on many just as possible stories. Time-scales are just as crucial with the between - issue as are storywise arising issues. There are no easy ways out ot

[PEIRCE-L] New book: Peirce on Perception and Reasoning: From Icons to Logic

Peirce on Perception and Reasoning From Icons to Logic Edited by Kathleen A. Hull , Richard Kenneth Atkins © 2017 – Routledge 232 pages -