Re: [PEIRCE-L] de Waal Seminar: Chapter 5, Semeiotics, or the doctrine of signs

2014-03-26 Thread Benjamin Udell
Vinicius, Gary R., Kees, list, I agree with Gary about the role of purpose in interpretation. Vinicius does, however, seem to allow of it in connection with the final interpretant, and to wish merely that Kees had somehow put it into those terms. On the other hand, I think Vinicius underplays

Re: [PEIRCE-L] Objects, Objectives, Objectivity

2014-04-01 Thread Benjamin Udell
lies external to the identity of the organism. Cheers jerry Best, Ben On Mar 30, 2014, at 9:11 PM, Benjamin Udell wrote: Gary F., Tori, list, I figure that the imperative might be generalizable to vegetable cases if one considers evolution as quasi-mind. I'll give it a try: A flower has

Re: [PEIRCE-L] RE: de Waal Seminar: Chapter 6, Philosophy of Science

2014-04-11 Thread Benjamin Udell
overrated his abilities so magicians aren't necessarily smarter than their audience apart from what they have read or learned from others of tricks. Harold L. Orbach Sent from my iPhone On Apr 11, 2014, at 1:45 PM, Benjamin Udell bud...@nyc.rr.com mailto:bud...@nyc.rr.com wrote: Dear John

Re: Fwd: [PEIRCE-L] RE: de Waal Seminar: Chapter 6, Philosophy of Science

2014-04-14 Thread Benjamin Udell
to pay too little attention to other kinds of philosophical questions about morality, art, and the like? --Jeff Jeff Downard Associate Professor Department of Philosophy NAU (o) 523-8354 From: Benjamin Udell [bud...@nyc.rr.com] Sent: Sunday, April 13, 2014

Re: [PEIRCE-L] RE: de Waal Seminar: Chapter 6, Philosophy of Science

2014-04-14 Thread Benjamin Udell
says, relates to making thought conform to being, the other, to making being conform to thought. There seems to be much justice in this restriction. [] Best, Ben On 4/14/2014 9:21 PM, Jerry LR Chandler wrote: Ben, List On Apr 14, 2014, at 8:06 PM, Benjamin Udell wrote: He

Re: [PEIRCE-L] RE: de Waal Seminar: Chapter 6, Philosophy of Science

2014-04-14 Thread Benjamin Udell
and from several perspectives. Very important to me. On Apr 14, 2014, at 9:10 PM, Benjamin Udell wrote: Or did Schleiermacher start out in theology? Yes, the three theology students studied at Tubingen together in the early years the 19th Century. My understanding is that they were

Re: Fwd: [PEIRCE-L] RE: de Waal Seminar: Chapter 6, Philosophy of Science

2014-04-15 Thread Benjamin Udell
or the special sciences) is not too inconsistent with that. Best, Ben On 4/14/2014 9:06 PM, Benjamin Udell wrote: Jeffrey D., list, For my part I don't have an opinion on whether Peirce should have paid more attention to hermeneutics and genealogical thinking and should have had a higher opinion

Re: Fwd: [PEIRCE-L] RE: de Waal Seminar: Chapter 6, Philosophy of Science

2014-04-15 Thread Benjamin Udell
that! Best, Ben On 4/15/2014 12:36 PM, Benjamin Udell wrote: CORRECTIONS! I bothered to scroll down further on the page to which I linked, and found the following topics AFTER The Course of Research: On Systems of Doctrine. On Classifications. On Definition and the Clearness of Ideas

Re: [PEIRCE-L] Transactions issue on Joe Ransdell and his legacy

2014-04-16 Thread Benjamin Udell
and his legacy. It's edited by Cathy Legg and Gary Richmond, with lots of help from Benjamin Udell, and you'll see familiar names among the authors as well. Best wishes, Kees - PEIRCE-L subscribers: Click on Reply List or Reply All to REPLY ON PEIRCE-L

[PEIRCE-L] DISSERTATIONS AT ARISBE: RANSDELL and LIBERTIN

2014-04-18 Thread Benjamin Udell
List, We've posted two dissertations to Arisbe: Charles Peirce: The Idea of Representation by Joseph Ransdell, 1966. Thanks to Lucy Ransdell for permission, and to Jonathan Devore who had a copy and optimized the PDF. The dissertation is spread into a few PDFs linked at:

Re: [PEIRCE-L] de Waal Seminar: Chapter 7, Pragmatism

2014-04-23 Thread Benjamin Udell
Gary, list, I think you're off to a solid start! You wrote, My first question is, What can we think of this very broad claim as to the foundational character of the [pragmatic maxim] for all of science, philosophy, and thought generally? Does Kees perhaps go too far here?

Re: [PEIRCE-L] de Waal Seminar: Chapter 7, Pragmatism

2014-04-23 Thread Benjamin Udell
* On Wed, Apr 23, 2014 at 10:00 AM, Benjamin Udell bud...@nyc.rr.com mailto:bud...@nyc.rr.com wrote: Gary, list, I think you're off to a solid start! You wrote, My first question is, What can we think of this very broad claim as to the foundational character of the [pragmatic maxim

Re: [PEIRCE-L] de Waal Seminar: Chapter 7, Pragmatism

2014-04-24 Thread Benjamin Udell
, for the purposes of clarifying, conceptions involved in/associate with their work. Best, Gary *Gary Richmond Philosophy and Critical Thinking Communication Studies LaGuardia College of the City University of New York * On Wed, Apr 23, 2014 at 3:14 PM, Benjamin Udell wrote

Re: [PEIRCE-L] de Waal Seminar: Chapter 7, Pragmatism

2014-04-24 Thread Benjamin Udell
of the City University of New York* On Thu, Apr 24, 2014 at 9:57 AM, Benjamin Udell wrote: Gary R., list, This seems to be error-confession month. I've a few new ones of my own now to mention. As regards _/logica utens/_ and _/logica docens/_, I confused things a bit, for example by asking

Re: [PEIRCE-L] de Waal Seminar: Chapters 7 8

2014-04-28 Thread Benjamin Udell
Jeffrey D., list, I've wanted to take Peirce literally about the FIRST rule of logic or reasoning, but the CP editors seem to treat it as methodeutical (i.e., belonging in logic's third department). In Volume 5 Pragmatism and Pragmaticism, Book 3 Unpublished Papers, one finds Chapter 6:

Re: [PEIRCE-L] Chapter 7.2.1 The Proof of Pragmatism Phenomenology

2014-04-29 Thread Benjamin Udell
Phyllis, list, Thanks for your thoughtful and clear post. I'm a fellow unreal philosopher, but differ from you in that I've no professional occasion of connection with Peirce's thought at all. I remember years ago finding a discussion of the ways in which people mean things that they say,

Re: [PEIRCE-L] de Waal Seminar: Chapters 7 8

2014-04-29 Thread Benjamin Udell
helpful. Meanwhile, I'll continue reflect on what you just wrote. Best, Gary *Gary Richmond Philosophy and Critical Thinking Communication Studies LaGuardia College of the City University of New York* On Tue, Apr 29, 2014 at 1:02 PM, Benjamin Udell wrote: Gary R., list, I'd put the three non

Re: [PEIRCE-L] de Waal Seminar: Chapter 8, Truth and reality

2014-05-06 Thread Benjamin Udell
Ulysses, Matt, Mara, list, I think that Peirce would agree with Matt's posted criticism by Swigart of Mill https://list.iupui.edu/sympa/arc/peirce-l/2014-05/msg00066.html so far as it goes. Mill is trying to re-cast induction as deduction from some postulated or inductively inferred

Re: [PEIRCE-L] de Waal Seminar: Chapter 8, Truth and reality

2014-05-06 Thread Benjamin Udell
Gary R., all, I saw your post only after I sent my previous post. Yes, I had plenty to say, way too much, including draft material that didn't make it into the article that Gary mentions, where I attempted to summarize Peirce's arguments in Ground of Validity of the Laws of Logic. Many of

Re: [PEIRCE-L] De Waal seminar chapter 9, section on God, science and religion: text 1

2014-05-21 Thread Benjamin Udell
Gary F., Stephen, all, The full text of Peirce's letter of April 24, 1892 to the Reverend John W. Brown is at http://www.unav.es/gep/LetterJBrown.html at the website of the Grupo de Estudios Peirceanos. G.E.P. also has images of the letter, beginning at: http://www.unav.es/gep/1Brown.html

Re: SV: [PEIRCE-L] De Waal seminar chapter 9, section on Mind, self, and person

2014-06-01 Thread Benjamin Udell
Gary, Jeff, Søren, Charles, list, Actually my view seems to diverge from Jeff's, at least as he has expressed it in the past. In my peirce-l response sent March 26, 2014, http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.science.philosophy.peirce/12301/focus=12327 Jeff had asked: [JBD QUOTE] [...] I'd

Re: SV: [PEIRCE-L] De Waal seminar chapter 9, section on Mind, self, and person

2014-06-02 Thread Benjamin Udell
he makes the point more clearly. --Jeff Jeff Downard Associate Professor Department of Philosophy NAU (o) 523-8354 *From:* Benjamin Udell [bud...@nyc.rr.com] *Sent:* Sunday, June 01, 2014 12:42 PM *To:* peirce-l

Re: [PEIRCE-L] RE: de Waal: Conclusion of the seminar

2014-06-05 Thread Benjamin Udell
: Gary Richmond [mailto:gary.richm...@gmail.com] Sent: Thursday, June 05, 2014 5:06 PM To: De Waal, Cornelis; Peirce-L Cc: Benjamin Udell; Catherine Legg; Houser, Nathan R. Subject: de Waal: Conclusion of the seminar Dear Kees, seminar emcees, list, Now that the seminar on Peirce: A Guide

Re: [PEIRCE-L] Triadic Philosophy Introduction

2014-06-15 Thread Benjamin Udell
Matt, as I amateurishly understand it, a gravitational field is an accelerational field, so a distant observer outside of it and at rest with respect to it will see the clocks there ticking more slowly (time dilation) than the observer's own. On the other hand, if you were orbiting a planet

[PEIRCE-L] Links to Peirce Centennial Seminar threads on Peirce: A Guide to the Perplexed by de Waal

2014-06-17 Thread Benjamin Udell
List, At Gary Richmond's suggestion, I've created an Arisbe page with links to the threads of peirce-l's Peirce Centennial Seminar, January to June, 2014 (and still going!) on Peirce: A Guide to the Perplexed by Cornelis de Waal. http://www.cspeirce.com/peirce-l/seminar-waal.htm Some may

Re: [PEIRCE-L] Links to Peirce Centennial Seminar threads on Peirce: A Guide to the Perplexed by de Waal

2014-06-17 Thread Benjamin Udell
at 5:57 PM, Benjamin Udell bud...@nyc.rr.com mailto:bud...@nyc.rr.com wrote: List, At Gary Richmond's suggestion, I've created an Arisbe page with links to the threads of peirce-l's Peirce Centennial Seminar, January to June, 2014 (and still going!) on Peirce: A Guide

Re: [PEIRCE-L] Re: Links to Peirce Centennial Seminar threads on Peirce: A Guide to the Perplexed by de Waal

2014-06-17 Thread Benjamin Udell
. Imagine if Peirce had had a modern computer Best, Ben On 6/17/2014 8:10 PM, Jon Awbrey wrote: Ben, Congratulations❢ You have just been chosen Data-Hound Pin-Up for the Month of June and are definitely in the running for Data-Hound-Dog of the Year❢ Cheers, Jon Benjamin Udell wrote

Re: [PEIRCE-L] Links to Peirce Centennial Seminar threads on Peirce: A Guide to the Perplexed by de Waal

2014-06-18 Thread Benjamin Udell
not convinced that the currently sanctified forms of philosophical publication are working as well as they might to encourage the development of genuinely radical new ideas. Cheers, Cathy *From:* Benjamin Udell [mailto:bud...@nyc.rr.com mailto:bud...@nyc.rr.com ] *Sent:* Wednesday, 18 June 2014

Re: [PEIRCE-L] Links to Peirce Centennial Seminar threads on Peirce: A Guide to the Perplexed by de Waal

2014-06-20 Thread Benjamin Udell
and looks like a tremendous lot of work. Thanks! This will be very helpful, as I do want to go back to some discussions. With the best wishes, Kees *From: * Gary Richmond *Date: * Tuesday, June 17, 2014 6:17 PM *To: * Benjamin Udell *Cc: * peirce-l@list.iupui.edu mailto:peirce-l@list.iupui.edu

Re: [PEIRCE-L] Re: De Waal Seminar Chapter 9 : Section on God ; Science and Religion

2014-06-24 Thread Benjamin Udell
Matt, list, Peirce briefly outlined his objection to James's 'will to believe', 'right to believe,' etc., in A Neglected Argument for the Reality of God where he characterizes it as willing not to exert the will. http://www.gnusystems.ca/CSPgod.htm#na0 As far as I can tell, exactly two

Re: Aw: Re: [PEIRCE-L] Re: Logic is Social

2014-06-27 Thread Benjamin Udell
Helmut, list Peirce's argument is that induction and hypothetical inference depend for their general rationale or justification on their correctability in the course of research, and the idea of that correctability depends on the idea of a community indefinite in size, with the prospect of

Re: [PEIRCE-L] [Fwd: AW: Unreasonable Arbitrariness of Mathematics:: Evidence]

2014-07-02 Thread Benjamin Udell
Sung, list, I think you're getting into a thicket. Mathematicians have varied on these questions. Kronecker (according to Weber 1893) said that God made integers, all else is the work of people (/Menschenwerk/). The Nicolas Bourbaki group placed most classical geometry under the umbrella of

Re: [PEIRCE-L] [Fwd: AW: Unreasonable Arbitrariness of Mathematics:: Evidence] A different perspective on this issue.

2014-07-03 Thread Benjamin Udell
icons, indices and symbols, along with the corresponding truths derived from observations. Cheers Jerry On Jul 2, 2014, at 3:57 PM, Benjamin Udell wrote: Sung, list, I think you're getting into a thicket. Mathematicians have varied on these questions. Kronecker (according to Weber 1893

Re: [PEIRCE-L] Re: [biosemiotics:6061] Re: Unreasonable

2014-07-03 Thread Benjamin Udell
Sung, list, You're mixing apples and oranges, using the word 'sign' equivocally. Saussure's 'sign' is not Peirce's 'sign' or even Peirce's 'symbol'; Saussure's 'sign' is Peirce's 'linguistic symbol'. Peirce defines a symbol as a sign that refers to its object by a norm or rule of

Re: [PEIRCE-L] Re: [biosemiotics:6051] Re: Unreasonable

2014-07-04 Thread Benjamin Udell
Sung, list, Your syllogism fails not only because of its equivocation with the word 'sign' but also its equivocation on the regard in which arbitrariness is involved. The arbitrariness of which among various synonyms one uses to denote an object - the arbitrariness of the Saussurian sign and

[PEIRCE-L] New Peirce books 2014

2014-07-06 Thread Benjamin Udell
List, I'll be sending along information on at least six new Peirce-related books published during 2014. You can see five of them at the New Books page at Arisbe (when you get there, clear your cache by reloading the page, my old tricks to force automatic reload have stopped working, at

Re: [PEIRCE-L] New Peirce books 2014

2014-07-07 Thread Benjamin Udell
...@hum.au.dk . - Best, Ben On 7/6/2014 10:27 PM, Benjamin Udell wrote: List, I'll be sending along information on at least six new Peirce-related books published during 2014. You can see five of them at the New Books page at Arisbe (when you get there, clear your cache by reloading the page, my old

[PEIRCE-L] Free copies of back issues of the Transactions of the Charles S. Peirce Society

2014-07-21 Thread Benjamin Udell
List, Reported by Mats Bergman today at _Commens_: Free copies of back issues of the _Transactions of the Charles S. Peirce Society_ http://www.commens.org/news/item/free-copies-back-issues-transactions-charles-s-peirce-society While there, take a look around the new Commens

[PEIRCE-L] Peirce's Architecture of Theories introductory lecture on logic now at Arisbe

2014-07-21 Thread Benjamin Udell
List, I've proofread and put Google Books' text copies into improved HTML and posted The Architecture of Theories http://www.cspeirce.com/menu/library/bycsp/arch/arch.htm and Introductory Lecture on the Study of Logic http://www.cspeirce.com/menu/library/bycsp/introlog.htm and posted them at

[PEIRCE-L] The Logic of Number posted at Arisbe

2014-07-22 Thread Benjamin Udell
List, I've posted an html version of On the Logic of Number at Arisbe. http://www.cspeirce.com/menu/library/bycsp/lognum.htm It has a number of fomulas, if anybody finds I've made an error, do please let me know. Paul Shields said of this paper: It is not generally known that Peirce's

Re: [PEIRCE-L] New links at Arisbe, including AJM Peirce articles free at JSTOR

2014-07-24 Thread Benjamin Udell
://twitter.com/stephencrose* On Thu, Jul 24, 2014 at 3:26 PM, Benjamin Udell bud...@nyc.rr.com mailto:bud...@nyc.rr.com wrote: List, New links added to Arisbe. * New papers Biosemiotics, Evolution, and Peircean Generalization The Role of Semiosis in Evolution — from

[PEIRCE-L] New page at Arisbe: Books till 2005

2014-07-25 Thread Benjamin Udell
List, here's a new page at Arisbe: Books till 2005 http://www.cspeirce.com/pastbooks.htm It's a start. Best, Ben - 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 .

Re: [PEIRCE-L] Re: [biosemiotics:6231] Re: biosemiotics is the basis for

2014-07-26 Thread Benjamin Udell
Sung, list, If you want to take the word written so literally, then consider the writing of an authorized signature on a contract or on legislation. Now, you may say that the system of the individual writing-event is a dissipative system, as opposed to the signature standing written. But

Re: [PEIRCE-L] New page at Arisbe: Books till 2005

2014-07-26 Thread Benjamin Udell
! Cheers, Cathy -Original Message- From: Benjamin Udell [mailto:bud...@nyc.rr.com] Sent: Saturday, 26 July 2014 12:35 p.m. To: peirce-l@list.iupui.edu Subject: [PEIRCE-L] New page at Arisbe: Books till 2005 List, here's a new page at Arisbe: Books till 2005 http://www.cspeirce.com/pastbooks.htm

Re: [PEIRCE-L] Re: [biosemiotics:6231] Re: biosemiotics is the basis for

2014-07-29 Thread Benjamin Udell
Sung, you wrote to Stephen, [QUOTE] Your written word just conveyed energy to my (6231-1) fingers to say NO. I did not write any words on a piece of paper (which would have been an example of equilibrium structure, since no energy would have been required for them to exist on

[PEIRCE-L] book lists

2014-08-04 Thread Benjamin Udell
List, The Books till 2005 http://www.cspeirce.com/pastbooks.htm list now has 60 books, and the New Recent Books (2006-2014) http://www.cspeirce.com/newbooks.htm list now has 91. I'm not done yet. I don't know how many people care about the following, but I've made both pages more

Re: [peirce-l] [PEIRCE-L] Phaneroscopy, iconoscopy, and trichotomic category theory

2014-08-18 Thread Benjamin Udell
Clark, you sent the message below to the OLD peirce-l server at Texas Tech (lyris.ttu.edu) You need to send it again, this time to the CURRENT peirce-l server PEIRCE-L@LIST.IUPUI.EDU Otherwise, many current subscribers won't receive it. Those long-timers who do reply to it may end up replying

[PEIRCE-L] CO-MANAGER NOTE, Clark Goble, please take note

2014-08-18 Thread Benjamin Udell
Clark, you sent the message below, like your previous one, to the OLD peirce-l server at Texas Tech (lyris.ttu.edu) You need to send this one again to, this time to the CURRENT peirce-l server PEIRCE-L@LIST.IUPUI.EDU Otherwise, many current subscribers won't receive it. Those long-timers who do

[PEIRCE-L] More newer books

2014-08-20 Thread Benjamin Udell
List, Below is a list of books that I've added the New Books page http://www.cspeirce.com/newbooks.htm since I last sent a list of them. You can find them all linked in the Recently Added table. The first three are the newest books, and I include publishers' descriptions in this message. The

Re: [PEIRCE-L] Phaneroscopy, iconoscopy, and trichotomic category theory

2014-08-25 Thread Benjamin Udell
wary of suggestions that logical validity depends on a feeling, but trying to sharply separate general validity of inference from power, ability, or capacity to infer, is not the road that Peirce finally took, so I'm going to back off on that one! Best, Ben On 8/25/2014 2:04 PM, Benjamin Udell

Re: [PEIRCE-L] Re: [biosemiotics:6515] Re: Abduction,

2014-08-25 Thread Benjamin Udell
Edwina, list, I don't understand why you speak of _/confinement/_. To say that a sign is priman, or is a first, in some sense, is not to say that it is confined to firstness in all respects. [Lectures on Pragmatism, CP 5.43, Quote] The particular categories form a series, or set of

Re: [PEIRCE-L] Re: [biosemiotics:6515] Re: Abduction,

2014-08-25 Thread Benjamin Udell
these two analytic frameworks. Edwina - Original Message - *From:* Benjamin Udell mailto:bud...@nyc.rr.com *To:* peirce-l@list.iupui.edu mailto:peirce-l@list.iupui.edu *Sent:* Monday, August 25, 2014 6:07 PM *Subject:* Re: [PEIRCE-L] Re: [biosemiotics:6515] Re: Abduction

Re: [PEIRCE-L] Re: [biosemiotics:6526] Re: Abduction,

2014-08-25 Thread Benjamin Udell
analytic frameworks. Edwina - Original Message - *From:* Benjamin Udell mailto:bud...@nyc.rr.com *To:* peirce-l@list.iupui.edu mailto:peirce-l@list.iupui.edu *Sent:* Monday, August 25, 2014 6:07 PM *Subject:* Re: [PEIRCE-L] Re: [biosemiotics:6515

Re: [PEIRCE-L] Firstness, Secondness, Thirdness

2014-08-26 Thread Benjamin Udell
Edwina, list, Responses interleaved. On 8/26/2014 9:14 AM, Edwina Taborsky wrote: [Edwina] Ben, you wrote: [Ben] You have not explained what is so confining about seeing the sign as a first, object as second, interpretant as third, in a general way. You have not explained how that creates a

Re: [PEIRCE-L] Re: C.S. Peirce • Syllabus • Selection 1

2014-08-27 Thread Benjamin Udell
Jerry, list, You wrote, [JLRC] 1. What served as the principle affinities of objects when the classification was made? [End quote] I did a Wikipedia article that, near the start, covers Peirce's discussions of the taxa, complete with a table. In the footnotes are links to the sources

Re: [PEIRCE-L] Re: C.S. Peirce • Syllabus • Selection 1

2014-08-27 Thread Benjamin Udell
correlations don't seem so clear with Peirce's three main classes of discovery science (1. (pure) maths, 2. cenoscopic philosophy, 3. the special sciences). Gary Richmond's vectors are an effort aimed ultimately at dealing with that among other things. Best, Ben On 8/27/2014 1:34 PM, Benjamin

[PEIRCE-L] At Arisbe: Foreword of Logique de la conception by Bernard Morand

2014-08-29 Thread Benjamin Udell
List, Long-time peirce-listers will remember Bernard Morand, who continues in retirement to peruse peirce-l. Some years ago he wrote a book _Logique de la Conception_, which he mentioned at peirce-l. I had, or retained, no clear idea back then that the book was about DESIGN and semiotic. The

Re: [PEIRCE-L] Re:Natural Propositions

2014-09-02 Thread Benjamin Udell
Jon, Why not be a bit more specific? You know that Peirce starting in 1903 Syllabus Nomenclature and Division of Triadic Relations says that some dicisigns (a.k.a. dicent signs) are symbols and some dicisigns instead are indices. Is your argument that every dicisign incorporates a symbol (I

Re: [PEIRCE-L] RE: Natural Propositions seminar

2014-09-06 Thread Benjamin Udell
Jeff, list, Jeff, you wrote, [Quote] First, what are the other key developments in Peirce's normative science of semiotics that—in addition to a deeper appreciation of the role of diagrams in deductive reasoning--are driving this rearticulation of the cognitive field? Second,

Re: [PEIRCE-L] Re: [biosemiotics:6698] Re: Natural Propositions

2014-09-08 Thread Benjamin Udell
Frederik, John, As far as I can tell (and I've been looking around), Peirce never distinguishes between _/mind/_ and _/psyche/_. But he does distinguish between a logical conception of mind and a psychological conception of mind. (See for example Memoir 11 On the Logical Conception of Mind

Re: [PEIRCE-L] Re: [biosemiotics:6706] Re: Natural Propositions

2014-09-08 Thread Benjamin Udell
Frederick, John C, John D, list, On 9/8/2014 3:44 PM, Frederik Stjernfelt wrote: [BU] As far as I can tell (and I've been looking around), Peirce never distinguishes between _/mind/ _ and _/psyche/ _. [FS] I did not claim P made such a distinction. I claimed his notion of mind was not

CO-MANAGER MESSAGE Re: [PEIRCE-L] [Fwd: [biosemiotics:6757] A connection among mathematics, glottometrics and genomics]

2014-09-12 Thread Benjamin Udell
Sungchul, You do this very often - sending a message without an intended attachment, then re-sending it with the attachment. Please stop doing that and instead check each time that you have included the attachment that you intended for the message. Ben Udell as co-manager of peirce-l On

Re: [PEIRCE-L] Re: [biosemiotics:6750] Natural Propositions

2014-09-14 Thread Benjamin Udell
. 22.21 skrev Benjamin Udell bud...@nyc.rr.com mailto:bud...@nyc.rr.com : Dear Frederik, lists, I don't see that we disagree on any fundamental points as to, for examples, the difference between philosophical logic and idioscopic psychology, or the pertinence of the theorematic-corollarial

[PEIRCE-L] Re: [biosemiotics:6834] Re: Natural Propositions, Chapter 2

2014-09-15 Thread Benjamin Udell
Jeff D., Gary F., lists, I seem to be recalling the neo-Scholastic de Wulf a lot lately, I don't know why, I didn't read him that much. Anyway, at some point he wrote of biology as passing over individual differences in order to understand species and so on. And I thought, that's not it at

Re: [PEIRCE-L] RE: [biosemiotics:6836] Re: Natural Propositions, Chapter 2

2014-09-15 Thread Benjamin Udell
Stan, Gary F., list, When mathematicians start basing their findings on those of neurology, I'll start to think that maybe there's something to the idea that mathematics is a neural phenomenon. Instead, mathematics is applied in neurology, not vice versa, and there seem good reasons in

Re: [PEIRCE-L] RE: [biosemiotics:6839] Re: Natural Propositions, Chapter 2

2014-09-15 Thread Benjamin Udell
link, but a cable whose fibers may be ever so slender, provided they are sufficiently numerous and intimately connected” (EP1:29). It also reminds me of Susan Haack’s crossword puzzle analogy: mutual reinforcement of solutions can be read as evidence for their correctness. *From: * Benjamin

Re: [PEIRCE-L] [biosemiotics:6834] Re: Natural Propositions, Chapter 2

2014-09-16 Thread Benjamin Udell
-)learning sense. We need more prefixes, this is turning into mush. Best, Ben On 9/16/2014 12:32 PM, Benjamin Udell wrote: Clark, list I thought that Cornelis de Waal had found another passage where Peirce identifies philosophy as logical analysis and logical analysis as phaneroscopic analysis

Re: [PEIRCE-L] Re: [biosemiotics:6834] Re: Natural Propositions, Chapter 2

2014-09-16 Thread Benjamin Udell
or the other vices of psychologism. If one doesn't attend carefully to the details of Peirce's self-assessments, he can seem inconsistent or confused about his position with respect to psychologism. Best, Jeff From: Benjamin Udell Sent: Monday, September 15

Re: [PEIRCE-L] [biosemiotics:6834] Re: Natural Propositions, Chapter 2

2014-09-17 Thread Benjamin Udell
form if there's nothing lower physically, it could only be a higher form. Best, Ben On 9/16/2014 9:00 PM, Clark Goble wrote: On Sep 16, 2014, at 12:09 PM, Benjamin Udell bud...@nyc.rr.com mailto:bud...@nyc.rr.com wrote: In regard to the Peirce quote from 1907 that you provided, it's also

Re: [PEIRCE-L] Re: [biosemiotics:6842] Re: Natural Propositions,

2014-09-18 Thread Benjamin Udell
Howard, Frederik, lists, Howard, is your objection is to using the decidedly adjectival real to describe something other than a concrete individual object, this man, this horse? Would you allow an adverb? Then you could say that Earth and Mars are really two planets, and their twoness has

[PEIRCE-L] ANNOUNCEMENT: ARISBE AT NEW SERVER

2014-09-18 Thread Benjamin Udell
To all, The Arisbe website has been transferred to a different server at Indianapolis University. 1) Some folks may need to clear their browser caches to force their browser to download the new site. You'll know that you've reached the new site when you click here on

Re: [PEIRCE-L] Re: [biosemiotics:6842] Re: Natural Propositions,

2014-09-19 Thread Benjamin Udell
Howard, lists, Epistemologies are not claims about special concrete phenomena in the sense that they and their deductively implied conclusions would be directly testable for falsity by special concrete experiments or experiences. That's also true of principles of statistics and of

[PEIRCE-L] Re: [biosemiotics:6900] Re: Natural Propositions,

2014-09-20 Thread Benjamin Udell
' is NOT now, how can we know which version from different cultures is 'real'? This is the basic reason one must be a nominalist. STAN On Fri, Sep 19, 2014 at 10:31 PM, Benjamin Udell wrote: Howard, lists, Epistemologies are not claims about special concrete phenomena in the sense

[PEIRCE-L] Re: [biosemiotics:6908] Re: Natural Propositions,

2014-09-21 Thread Benjamin Udell
On Sat, Sep 20, 2014 at 2:31 PM, Benjamin Udell bud...@nyc.rr.com mailto:bud...@nyc.rr.com wrote: Stan, list, The main idea is not that of a long run. Instead the idea is that of sufficient investigation. Call it 'sufficiently long' or 'sufficiently far-reaching

Re: [PEIRCE-L] Re: [biosemiotics:6912] Re: Natural Propositions,

2014-09-23 Thread Benjamin Udell
Stefan, Gary F., list, I was indeed addressing the snakebite example, just not mentioning it by name. If two traditions, two people, two of anything, arrive at incompatible conclusions about snakebites, then at most one of their conclusions is true. That's what incompatible conclusions means.

[PEIRCE-L] Re: [biosemiotics:6968] Re: Natural Propositions,

2014-09-23 Thread Benjamin Udell
. John *From:* Benjamin Udell *Sent:* September 23, 2014 6:25 PM *To:* biosemiot...@lists.ut.ee; peirce-l@list.iupui.edu *Subject:* [biosemiotics:6967] Re: Natural Propositions, Stan, lists, You prefer to use 'truth' in quotes and to call 'truth' any opinion that anybody calls a truth. You're

Re: [PEIRCE-L] Re: [biosemiotics:6908] Re: Natural Propositions,

2014-09-23 Thread Benjamin Udell
naming of ‘culturalism’ and empirical critique of its effect on scientific research also. Cheers, Cathy From: Benjamin Udell Sent: Monday, 22 September 2014 4:28 a.m. To: biosemiot...@lists.ut.ee; peirce-l@list.iupui.edu Subject: [PEIRCE-L] Re: [biosemiotics:6908] Re: Natural Propositions, Stan

Re: [PEIRCE-L] RE: [biosemiotics:6969] Re: Natural Propositions,

2014-09-23 Thread Benjamin Udell
John C., Thanks, done. But you say your paper deals just in things that aren't directly Peirce related? (Signs without minds http://web.ncf.ca/collier/papers/Signs%20without%20minds.pdf ) It has plenty of review of Peirce's ideas, and draws conclusions that definitely are not simply about

Re: [PEIRCE-L] Re: [biosemiotics:6842] Re: Natural Propositions,

2014-09-24 Thread Benjamin Udell
/2014, Benjamin Udell wrote: The laws seem for all the world like mathematical rules nontrivially operative as laws of physical quantities such as force, mass, velocity, etc. That's why the laws can be formulated as mathematical rules, in conventional mathematical symbols and formulas. Ben, I

Re: [PEIRCE-L] Re: [biosemiotics:6842] Re: Natural Propositions,

2014-09-25 Thread Benjamin Udell
Howard, lists, You snipped a bit too much of what I said. I was talking about mathematics not just in the sense of doing the math, but of the mathematical objects themselves. You switch between the objects that one considers, and one's considering of the objects, and end up comparing apples

Re: [PEIRCE-L] [biosemiotics:6834] Re: Natural Propositions, Chapter 2

2014-09-26 Thread Benjamin Udell
Clark, list, I've also noticed a difficulty of finding usefulness for the formal cause in physics, though I came at it from other directions, simpler ones for me since I'm not a physicist, but also I'd like to add a clarification of the idea of formal causation. A thing's form is its formal

Re: [PEIRCE-L] [biosemiotics:6834] Re: Natural Propositions, Chapter 2

2014-09-27 Thread Benjamin Udell
Clark, list, Responses interleaved. On 9/27/2014 7:41 PM, Clark Goble wrote: On Sep 26, 2014, at 12:41 PM, Benjamin Udell wrote:/p Clark, list, I've also noticed a difficulty of finding usefulness for the formal cause in physics, though I came at it from other directions, simpler ones

Re: [PEIRCE-L] [biosemiotics:6834] Re: Natural Propositions, Chapter 2

2014-09-30 Thread Benjamin Udell
of space and time in the sense in which that unification is understood in physics - such as to modify the idea of the signal speed limit as a common yardstick of space and time? Best, Ben On 9/29/2014 2:36 PM, Clark Goble wrote: On Sep 29, 2014, at 10:38 AM, Benjamin Udell wrote: By the way

Re: [PEIRCE-L] [biosemiotics:6834] Re: Natural Propositions, Chapter 2

2014-09-30 Thread Benjamin Udell
, at 9:21 AM, Benjamin Udell wrote: If one is a realist _/only/_ about things that one doesn't know, then one implies that the real is not cognizable. I suppose that one could say in a loose sense that one is partly an instrumentalist about simplified models, but one may regard such models as still

Re: [PEIRCE-L] [biosemiotics:6834] Re: Natural Propositions, Chapter 2

2014-09-30 Thread Benjamin Udell
Clark, list, sorry, a few corrections/additions in *bold red*. - Best, Ben On 9/30/2014 1:58 PM, Benjamin Udell wrote: Clark, list, You wrote, [CG] It’s a subtle issue that’s hard to get terminology for. (Probably one should do a literature search and see how others have solved

Re: [PEIRCE-L] Genuine triadicity, chirality (handedness) and the origins of life

2014-09-30 Thread Benjamin Udell
Gary R., Gary F., lists, Thanks for the reminder, Gary R. about renaming tangential threads. I should have done that a while ago with some threads that I've been on. Regarding conservation of energy: My understanding is that, in general relativity it's considered not to be conserved in an

Re: [PEIRCE-L] Genuine triadicity, chirality (handedness) and the origins of life

2014-09-30 Thread Benjamin Udell
LaGuardia College of the City University of New York C 745 718 482-5690* On Tue, Sep 30, 2014 at 4:05 PM, Benjamin Udell wrote: - 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

Re: [PEIRCE-L] Genuine triadicity, chirality (handedness) and the origins of life

2014-09-30 Thread Benjamin Udell
, Benjamin Udell bud...@nyc.rr.com mailto:bud...@nyc.rr.com wrote: Regarding conservation of energy: My understanding is that, in general relativity it's considered not to be conserved in an expanding or contracting universe, although it's still regardable as conserved in normal situations

Re: [PEIRCE-L] Theories and Realism (was Natural Propositions)

2014-10-01 Thread Benjamin Udell
, Benjamin Udell bud...@nyc.rr.com mailto:bud...@nyc.rr.com wrote: [CG] Whether the “nearly real” is good enough is a reasonable question. Like you, I see it as good enough, but I think there are important caveats one has to make which is why I mentioned that on practical grounds

[PEIRCE-L] Re: [biosemiotics:7045] Re: Natural Propositions,

2014-10-01 Thread Benjamin Udell
be symbols. And then I found the passage on Singular Symbols, and put two and two together, so to speak. Best, Ben On 10/1/2014 2:00 PM, Benjamin Udell wrote: Gary R., Gary F., lists, I'm not sure that Peirce stuck with his idea of a Singular Symbol. CP 2.293-4 is from the Syllabus (circa 1902

Re: [PEIRCE-L] Re: [biosemiotics:7045] Re: Natural Propositions,

2014-10-01 Thread Benjamin Udell
, Ben On 10/1/2014 2:00 PM, Benjamin Udell wrote: Gary R., Gary F., lists, I'm not sure that Peirce stuck with his idea of a Singular Symbol. CP 2.293-4 is from the Syllabus (circa 1902, according to the CP editors). In a Syllabus passage - the one on subindices a.k.a. hyposemes, dated 1903, he

Re: [PEIRCE-L] Re: Natural Propositions • Selected Passages

2014-10-01 Thread Benjamin Udell
Jeff D., Jon, I'd just like to note that the questions of triads versus trichotomies is something that we've discussed a number of times at peirce-l over the years. For my part, I like using those words in the way that Jon and others have recommended - 'triad' for the triadically related

[PEIRCE-L] Re: [biosemiotics:7050] Re: Natural Propositions,

2014-10-02 Thread Benjamin Udell
into the idea of the index via the idea of the indexical legisign? Well, I don't know. Best, Ben On 10/1/2014 6:48 PM, Benjamin Udell wrote: Gary R., Gary F., lists, Yes, I think that the subindex is the singular symbol. Well, I can't say, for example, that Peirce didn't have in mind more

Re: [PEIRCE-L] Theories and Realism (was Natural Propositions)

2014-10-03 Thread Benjamin Udell
. Best, Ben On 9/30/2014 5:49 PM, Clark Goble wrote: (Changed the thread title since weâEUR^(TM)ve drifted far from natural propositions) On Sep 30, 2014, at 11:58 AM, Benjamin Udell bud...@nyc.rr.com mailto:bud...@nyc.rr.com wrote: [CG] Whether the âEURoenearly realâEUR? is good enough

Re: [PEIRCE-L] Re: Natural Propositions . Selected Passages

2014-10-03 Thread Benjamin Udell
Sungchul, list I know next to nothing about category theory. Most generally a triad is a trio. A predicate is called triadic if it is predicated of three objects like so: /Pxyz/. In Peirce's system a genuine triad is one involving irreducibly triadic action, called semiosis, among three

Re: [PEIRCE-L] Natural Propositions . Selected Passages

2014-10-03 Thread Benjamin Udell
of mathematics more felicitous than the discarded logicism of Frege, Dedekind, and the Russell of the _Principles of Mathematics_ and the _Principia_. Irving H. Anellis [End quote] On 10/3/2014 2:57 PM, Clark Goble wrote: On Oct 3, 2014, at 12:20 PM, Benjamin Udell bud

Re: [biosemiotics:7087] Fwd: [PEIRCE-L] Example of Dicisign?

2014-10-04 Thread Benjamin Udell
Gary F., Tom, list, Gary, are you sure you're not confusing denotation with designation or indication? The denotation of 'red' is all red things, or the population of red things; the comprehension (or significance) of 'red' is the quality _/red/ _ and all that that implies. That's why

Re: [biosemiotics:7087] Fwd: [PEIRCE-L] Example of Dicisign?

2014-10-05 Thread Benjamin Udell
This is crucial for understanding the syntax of the dicisign, which is the subject of NP 3.7. gary f. From: Benjamin Udell *Sent:* 4-Oct-14 7:35 PM *To:* peirce-l@list.iupui.edu *Subject:* Re: [biosemiotics:7087] Fwd: [PEIRCE-L] Example of Dicisign? Gary F., Tom, list, Gary, are you sure

Re: [PEIRCE-L] Re: [biosemiotics:7108] Natural Propositions, Chapter 3.7

2014-10-06 Thread Benjamin Udell
distinctions impacting the argument being made by Frederik in NP? Best, Gary * * *Gary Richmond* *Philosophy and Critical Thinking* *Communication Studies* *LaGuardia College of the City University of New York* *C 745* *718 482-5690* On Mon, Oct 6, 2014 at 8:31 PM, Benjamin Udell bud...@nyc.rr.com

Re: [PEIRCE-L] Re: [biosemiotics:7108] Natural Propositions, Chapter 3.7

2014-10-06 Thread Benjamin Udell
. Best, Ben On 10/6/2014 9:36 PM, Benjamin Udell wrote: Gary R., lists, I'm arguing against the idea that the subject alone denotes and the predicate alone comprehends. It's difficult to maintain Peirce's 'breadth times depth equals information' unless each rheme (subject or predicate) both

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