Re: Re: [PEIRCE-L] Lowell Lecture 3.6

2017-12-31 Thread kirstima
Jeffrey, list, A beutiful example of ethics of interpretation you offered, Jeffrey. Thanks. With quotes from Collected Papers my sincere wish is that the year of writing is mentioned, whenever possible. Those are to be found in the small footnotes. Peirce was not just a corpuscular entity,

Re: Aw: Re: RE: [PEIRCE-L] Lowell Lecture 3.6

2017-12-31 Thread kirstima
Helmut, I find your thinking very much to the point. I also find it very good to be frank. And I think Peirce wasas frank as he could, too. Which did not make him very agreeable to the establishments of his times. By now, there is no agreement on any overview, not about this topic or much e

RE: [PEIRCE-L] Lowell Lecture 3.6

2017-12-31 Thread kirstima
Gary f, Sorry for inexact expressions. I should have made a distinction between just interpreting a quote and going beyond it. Paraphrasing is customarily marked with expressions like "as XXX says elsewhere...". If I had problems with understanding where you were paraphrasing Peirce, and whe

RE: [PEIRCE-L] Lowell Lecture 3.6

2018-01-01 Thread kirstima
Gary f. Now I truly believe you were sincere with your wishes for a happy new year. Thanks. We still do disagree. And I do not think the problems can be reduced into language problems. There are more fundamental issues involved. I am not asking anyone to believe without testing out what

Re: [PEIRCE-L] "I don't believe in word senses." (was Lowell Lecture 3.11

2018-01-10 Thread kirstima
Linguistists and lexicographers may be and often are experts in language, but they are no experts in questions on human mind or the nature of human understanding. The best of them acknowledge this fact. No onesided expertice can overcome this dilemma. Both sides of any coin are needed. Just as

Re: [PEIRCE-L] "I don't believe in word senses." (was Lowell Lecture 3.11

2018-01-10 Thread kirstima
In regard of the title in this chain, I'd like add: If anyone has written a huge amount of definitions on anything does not, by itself, prove that those are even on the right tract. Words come easy. Tests on the thougts conveyed do not. Best, Kirsti John F Sowa kirjoitti 9.1.2018 16:04: On

Re: [PEIRCE-L] Modal logic

2018-01-10 Thread kirstima
Jerry, list, CSP wrote: the meaning of anything lies in what it aims at. - This what teleology is about. The problem lies in that we cannot just just look and see what the aims are. - Can you now just see what my aim now is? - You may and most probably do have thoughts and opinions on the is

Re: [PEIRCE-L] "I don't believe in word senses." (was Lowell Lecture 3.11

2018-01-10 Thread kirstima
John, list If and when "formal languages" end up with attepts at eliminating flexibility in natural languages, it will not be natural languages which will get defeated. Just take a quick look at the history. All proof lies in the side of natural languages. John wrote: "Since teachers use N

Re: [PEIRCE-L] Peirce's search for a more iconic notation

2018-01-10 Thread kirstima
To my mind CSP by iconical meant turning into geometrical proof. Not only minute steps written in a very long row according to a large set of rules given by tradition, but difficult or even impossible to convey. A possibility for an overview of logical structures, an overview to be obtained by

Re: [PEIRCE-L] Re: Note from List Moderator : Frequency of Posting

2018-02-12 Thread kirstima
List, I too second Gary Richmonds note. I'd like to add that multiple postings seem to be adjunct to this problem. People send to personal mailboxes in addtion to the list. If just that gets left out, the mass of mails would not look so awfull, so hopeless. Best, Kirsti Ia mail is sent t

[PEIRCE-L] Pragmatic Maxims and mediation (Was Lowell Lectures)

2018-02-14 Thread kirstima
List, First I wish to express my appreciation to Gary f., to his lead and his commentaries on LL. - However, it seem to me that the discussions tend to get muddled on certain very, very basic respects. Peirce's first formulation of the Pragmatic Maxims was about "practical bearings". So it w

RE: [PEIRCE-L] Pragmatic Maxims and mediation (Was Lowell Lectures)

2018-02-14 Thread kirstima
Gary f., list, Your response presented as full an understanding of essential points in my post as I could ever hope. Even more, I was greatly and happily surprised. And yes, of course there are any formulations of the ideas conveyed by the two short expressions he gave a final stamp of his a

RE: [PEIRCE-L] Pragmatic Maxims and mediation (Was Lowell Lectures)

2018-02-23 Thread kirstima
gnox, There must have been some misunderstanding of my post, if you could not find what I meant. Which is foud EP 2, 134-135. Even if CSP states in his Harward Lectures (1903) "I have not succeeded any better than this: Pragmatism is the principle that every theoretical judgement expressible

Re: [PEIRCE-L] Re: Pragmatic Maxims and Mediation

2018-02-24 Thread kirstima
Thank you, Jon for bringing up your "Seven major variations..." In it you take up with excellent clarity seven perspectives upon the Maxim, from the standpoint of a philospher. Mentioning year with each quote is very informative in respect of development of CSP's main interests and aims. How

RE: [PEIRCE-L] Quasi-mind

2018-02-28 Thread kirstima
Good points. But both of you seem to move only within the thin air of abstractions. There is a need for concrete demonstrations. Examples to examine, for example. Kirsti g...@gnusystems.ca kirjoitti 19.2.2018 14:47: Jon, Your collection of Peirce quotes deploying the term “quasi-mind” (if ea

Re: Scientific inquiry does not involve matters "of vital importance," was, [PEIRCE-L] A footnote on reason

2018-03-03 Thread kirstima
Gary R. I do think you have mistaken CSP's exclamation of dispair for his true views on science and vitally important matters. The issue should be rethougth, I believe. Kirsti Gary Richmond kirjoitti 2.3.2018 22:41: Stephen quoted Peirce: _We employ twelve good men and true to decide a qu

Re: Scientific inquiry does not involve matters "of vital importance," was, [PEIRCE-L] A footnote on reason

2018-03-10 Thread kirstima
List, I second Gene's views. A most important post.A most important CSP quote! Kirsti Määttänen Eugene Halton kirjoitti 5.3.2018 23:01: Dear Gary R. You mention the problem of greed, Gary, denying that it is a problem of science and claiming that it is a misuse of science by “the

Re: Re: [PEIRCE-L] Peirce's Theory of Thinking

2016-09-07 Thread kirstima
List, Did CSP ever use as a dichotomy the distincition between ontology vs. epistemology? I think not. That would be against his basic views. This frame just does not fit. Kirsti Jon Alan Schmidt kirjoitti 7.9.2016 00:43: Helmut, List: Peirce's "Neglected Argument" is certainly NOT the sam

Re: [PEIRCE-L] Arbitariness of the Sign / Centenary of the Cours de Linguistique Générale / Ferdinand de Saussure

2016-09-14 Thread kirstima
Dear Jean-Yves Beziau & the list! The one and only linguist, who knew both Saussure and Peirce ' by heart', was Roman Jakobson. He never agreed with the idea of arbitrariness of the sign. He even took the famous 'Cours' compiled by the students of Saussure as a misunderstanding, a misintepreta

Re: [PEIRCE-L] Peirce's Cosmology

2016-10-13 Thread kirstima
Dear John, Jerry R., Thank you very much, John for your brilliant summary on the relation between nominalism and pragmaticism & Einstein and his theorizing. And Jerry, I would recommend a very detailed study of the two formulations by CSP, given in his first Harward Lecture (EP vol. 2) befor

Re: [PEIRCE-L] Peirce's Cosmology

2016-10-14 Thread kirstima
Dear Jerry R. I can assure you, there was nothing pejorative in my intention in responding to you. I just wished to point out that it indeed is very important to study in detail the exact wording CSP worked with for decades. Especially those wordings he stick up with in his latest years. The

RE: [PEIRCE-L] Re: Universes and Categories (was Peirce's Cosmology)

2016-10-23 Thread kirstima
Dear Auke & al. It seems to me that you are on the right tract, but in a way CSP did not share. And going along a tract, wich leads nowhere. Although the main interest of CSP lied in science, his starting point was "babes and suclings", (just google this) As have been mine, even before I had

Re: [PEIRCE-L] Universes and Categories (was Peirce's Cosmology)

2016-10-23 Thread kirstima
A most importan note! Kirsti John F Sowa kirjoitti 21.10.2016 20:55: On 10/21/2016 1:09 PM, Jerry LR Chandler wrote: By "scientific causality," do you mean /efficient/ causality (i.e., brute reactions), /final/ causality (i.e., laws of nature), both, or something else altogether? Scientific c

RE: [PEIRCE-L] Re: Universes and Categories (was Peirce's Cosmology)

2016-10-24 Thread kirstima
Dear Auke, I got very delighted by your response! Right now, I have very little time, but I wish to share some of my thoughts on and about it. First: The idea of primordial chaos is very, very popular. Even so popular that one should get suspicios in front of the popularity. It is commonly t

Re: [PEIRCE-L] Re: Universes and Categories (was Peirce's Cosmology)

2016-10-25 Thread kirstima
Edwina, Auke, listers, I wish to point out some key issues involved in my earlier post, connected with Edwina's comments 24.10.2016 Edwina Taborsky kirjoitti 24.10.2016 16:51: ET: > "Kirsti, I like your outlines of embryos and the 'firstness' of Feelings. [I think that more research should

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 dime

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)

2016-11-10 Thread kirstima
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 the

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

2016-11-12 Thread kirstima
John, list. You wrote: "Different languages have different options for the grammatical forms that express such relations. The number of options could lead to a combinatorial explosion, but the practical number is limited by human memory." I take your first sentence as a most important note.

Re: [PEIRCE-L] On esoteric and exoteric Peirce

2016-11-14 Thread kirstima
Jerry, If you take "to people who want to find out" to mean: "people who want to find out by themselves" thus not only to be told so, it makes perfect sense. - In order to find grounds for this interpretation, you will have to look elsewhere in the works of CSP. - It is not uncommon that in o

Re: [PEIRCE-L] On esoteric and exoteric Peirce

2016-11-16 Thread kirstima
Jerry, Instead of jumping into conclusions (iterpretations) on what CSP meant, let's (as a first step) take closer look on what you did in the act of writing your response. You picked up a metaphor, used by CSP. In order to understand the meaning of any metaphor (in pragmaticist sense), one

Re: [PEIRCE-L] phenomenology of stories

2016-11-23 Thread kirstima
Hi Stefan, Very interesting! Especially because the author is a lawyer. Still, I doubt I'll have time to read these. Anyway, Husserlian phenomenology is thoroughly different from Peircean phenomenology. They started from a very, very different conception of mind. For starters. Quite often,

Re: [PEIRCE-L] phenomenology of stories

2016-11-25 Thread kirstima
Stefan, This gets more and more interesting! Please, do provide the details! - I have spent quite a while in moderating my methods of text interpretations for developing a way which works in interpreting law. Very, very different methods are needed, that's for sure. 'Tradition' for instance

Re: [PEIRCE-L] phenomenology of stories

2016-11-25 Thread kirstima
Stefan, Thank you for the information. Good to know. - However, I do not think I'll ever take the trouble of finding these books. With any close-read of texts it is sufficient for a big while to know that laws need an approach of their own. - No hand of a sheriff with any, however nonsensic

Re: [PEIRCE-L] phenomenology of stories

2016-11-27 Thread kirstima
Most interesting! Thank you Gene. I have been reading Simmel lately. Not been happy with it. But Simmel seems to be quite to the vogue, in Finland that is. Kirsti Eugene Halton kirjoitti 27.11.2016 19:25: Dear Stefan, Interesting. One rarely ever hears of a student of Simmel. Desp

Re: [PEIRCE-L] Peirce and Democracy

2016-12-06 Thread kirstima
Clark, How come you say chemists have a "more practical field"??? This I find an amusing note. Is there a rationale behind this note, or is it just a flippant one which cannot be given any grounds for? Kirsti Clark Goble kirjoitti 5.12.2016 19:31: On Dec 5, 2016, at 7:05 AM, John F Sowa

Re: [PEIRCE-L] Peirce and Democracy

2016-12-06 Thread kirstima
For CSP the real was not reducible to existent individuals, be theyindividual facts fould out by measuments in empirical,however strict experimental investigations, OR individual minds, ie. any particular persons, taken as existent individuals. The real, for CSP, revealed itself only 'in the

Re: Aw: Re: [PEIRCE-L] Peirce and Democracy

2016-12-06 Thread kirstima
Helmut, Peirce was opposed to behaviorism in any proper sense, because behaviorism did not exist by his time. It came into being later. Behaviorism came from US, and sweeped over the field of anglo-american psychology later than the span of life of CSP. The roots of behaviorism come from Ru

Re: [PEIRCE-L] Peirce and Democracy

2016-12-06 Thread kirstima
Theoretical physicists are of course less practiqual minded. But the right point of comparison would then be theoretical chemists. The key point, however, is that neither chemistry nor physics should be taken as equivelants to the buch of people currently practicing the these sciences. That

Re: [PEIRCE-L] Peirce and Science (was Democracy)

2016-12-11 Thread kirstima
Hi all, The string theoty is a legitimate theory, even if (and when)it does not hold. It has paved the way forwards. - Kirsti - 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@li

Re: [PEIRCE-L] Peirce and Science (was Democracy)

2016-12-13 Thread kirstima
A very, very important note this is. - The deepest theoretical problem (to my mind) lies in scaling, which is necessary in order to deal with the very large and the very small. Practical problems with measuring follow suit. They are just problems of time and efforts. - Once there is a theoreti

Re: [PEIRCE-L] Peirce and Science (was Democracy)

2016-12-13 Thread kirstima
If Wikipedia is taken as a scientific authority, then the situation is really bad. Kirsti Jerry LR Chandler kirjoitti 11.12.2016 22:36: Ben, List: On Dec 11, 2016, at 1:48 PM, Benjamin Udell wrote: According to Wikipedia, the Planck length is, in principle, within a factor of 10, the short

Re: [PEIRCE-L] Peirce and Science (was Democracy)

2016-12-15 Thread kirstima
John wrote: "Note that Peirce did not use the word 'semantics'. That word was introduced into analytic philosophy by Charles Morris's misunderstanding of Peirce. Carnap loved that word because it gave his nominalism a thin veneer of meaning. It enabled him to define modality in terms of Gedan

Re: Aw: Re: [PEIRCE-L] Theism and Peircean Cosmology

2016-12-31 Thread kirstima
Is this list about the philosophy of Peirce any more? - Or does CSP only serve as a starting point to presenting any kinds of ideas loosely connected with CSP. The list-minders should set an example. - It does no seem so to me. Best, Kirsti Helmut Raulien kirjoitti 29.12.2016 21:52: Clark,

Re: [PEIRCE-L] Universal/General/Continuous and Particular//Singular/Individual

2017-01-12 Thread kirstima
I heartily agree with John. Kirsti John F Sowa kirjoitti 11.1.2017 17:32: On 1/10/2017 2:21 PM, Jon Alan Schmidt wrote: Forster's /Peirce and the Threat of Nominalism/. Re: The favorable review by Nathan Houser and the highly critical review by T. L. Short. I believe that both reviewers saw

Re: [PEIRCE-L] Re: Nominalism and Essentialism are the Scylla and Charybdis that Pragmatism Must Navigate Its Middle Way Between

2017-01-15 Thread kirstima
Jon, The problem, as I see it, has not been a philosphical issue for many, many centuries. In the Middle Ages it was. - But, as CSP noted, by his time it had become a very different question. - By which I mean: No question at all! I do not have time or patience to look up the exact quote by

Re: [PEIRCE-L] Universal/General/Continuous and Particular//Singular/Individual

2017-01-15 Thread kirstima
Jon A.S. First: see my recent response to Jon Awbrey. Second: In developing his theory of true continuity, CSP used the basic geometrical notions of a line and a point. (According to his architecture of sciences, which presents not just an architecture of sciences, but more so a method for pr

Re: [PEIRCE-L] Universal/General/Continuous and Particular//Singular/Individual

2017-01-15 Thread kirstima
Ben, Peircer's qualities of feelings are not 'generals'. When reflected upon they appear vague, which does not have any direct relation with tte philosphical concept of 'general'. Kirsti Jon Alan Schmidt kirjoitti 10.1.2017 06:07: Ben, List: BU: This rule-style of formulation reflects a m

Re: [PEIRCE-L] Universal/General/Continuous and Particular//Singular/Individual

2017-01-17 Thread kirstima
Jon S. Not only is continuity the most difficult problem for philosophy to handle, it is also the most difficult problem for mathematics to handle. Taking into consideration the view of CSP that we always have to start with math, then proceed to phenomenology, and only after this try to hand

Re: [PEIRCE-L] Re: Nominalism and Essentialism are the Scylla and Charybdis that Pragmatism Must Navigate Its Middle Way Between

2017-01-17 Thread kirstima
John F.S., It is always absolutely necessary to communicate with ones contemporary scientific communities. Which is followed by a necessity to use the basic views and terminology they use and can understand. - CSP (in letters to lady Welby) characterized this as throwing a bone to the Cerber

Re: [PEIRCE-L] Universal/General/Continuous and Particular//Singular/Individual

2017-01-17 Thread kirstima
Ben, Are there omitted parts in your quotes? Marked by -? Best, Kirsti Benjamin Udell kirjoitti 15.1.2017 20:05: Jon A.S., Kirsti, list, Regarding Peirce about reflected-on qualities as generals, I was basing that on the same text as contains CP 1.427 quoted by Jon A.S. That is "§2. Quality"

Re: [PEIRCE-L] Universal/General/Continuous and Particular//Singular/Individual

2017-01-17 Thread kirstima
I agree! Kirsti John F Sowa kirjoitti 16.1.2017 23:56: On 1/16/2017 3:32 PM, Clark Goble wrote: I think one can still manage how symbols grow. That is consider them bundles of process. The question ends up being what the limits of the symbol are. Of course that becomes a complex topic too. I

Re: [PEIRCE-L] Universal/General/Continuous and Particular//Singular/Individual

2017-01-17 Thread kirstima
Clark, Your wrote: CG: Logically that then has a beginning and end to the symbol. Definitely not so acccording to the logic of CSP. - You are using some other kind of logic, according to which symbols do not grow - on the ground of communities, not just by individuals. You seem to be block

Re: [PEIRCE-L] Universal/General/Continuous and Particular//Singular/Individual

2017-01-17 Thread kirstima
Solving problems with definitions and defining is the nominalistic way to proceed. I do not work in the way of presenting definitions. - I work with doing something, with a (more or less) systematic method. - Just like in a laboratory. I have done strict experimental work. And strict up to mo

Re: [PEIRCE-L] Universal/General/Continuous and Particular//Singular/Individual

2017-01-17 Thread kirstima
OK, very interesting. - But not viable to any kind of an answer to the question of the nature of relationship between quality and generality. CSP is just throwing some loose characerizations to the field. What he happened to write (e.g in his notebooks), or even his published papers, were not

Re: [PEIRCE-L] Universal/General/Continuous and Particular//Singular/Individual

2017-01-19 Thread kirstima
Clark, No community we possibly know about has not ended. There is no "of course" with the question of communities. On the main, communities change, radically or not so. - The remnants of any community, any culture with any traces left behind may start to grow again. Kirsti Clark Goble kir

Re: [PEIRCE-L] Universal/General/Continuous and Particular//Singular/Individual

2017-01-19 Thread kirstima
Alan, Sorry for the typo. - Sill it seems to me you miss a crucial aspect of ' to kath ekaston', what is singular. - The difference lies in it being determinate only as long as 'time is so'. - What is real, in contrast to existent individuals, always lies (partly) in the future. Thus it is ne

Re: [PEIRCE-L] Re: Universal/General/Continuous and Particular/Singular/Individual

2017-01-19 Thread kirstima
Yes! I agree. Kirsti Jon Awbrey kirjoitti 18.1.2017 05:52: A Few Points Along This Line: JA:https://list.iupui.edu/sympa/arc/peirce-l/2017-01/msg00055.html JA:https://list.iupui.edu/sympa/arc/peirce-l/2017-01/msg00062.html JA:https://list.iupui.edu/sympa/arc/peirce-l/2017-01/msg00063.html JA:ht

Re: [PEIRCE-L] Universal/General/Continuous and Particular//Singular/Individual

2017-01-21 Thread kirstima
Sorry Jon. Again. - I definitely never said that I "abhorr definitions". If you do not regocnize an intrepretation here, compared to what I wrote, I'm afraid there is nothing to discuss. - We are not on anything like a same page. Kirsti Jon Alan Schmidt kirjoitti 19.1.2017 16:25: Kirsti, L

Re: [PEIRCE-L] Universal/General/Continuous and Particular//Singular/Individual

2017-01-22 Thread kirstima
Jon, You are right about my unhappy choice of word. It was an overstatement, to say the least. Long ago, when you had used "segments" in connection with continuity, It gave me the impression of some lines of thought akin to nominalistic ways. - But you responded with taking a critical stand

Re: [PEIRCE-L] signs, correlates, and triadic relations - The union of the units unifies the unity

2017-01-31 Thread kirstima
Hi, I feel a need to point out that "sinsign, index and dicisign" presents a trichotomy of signs. Not a triad, but a tree-part division, a classification, if you wish. All triads and triadicity involve mediation. Triadicity also involves meaning, not just signs. Kirsti Jerry LR Chandler

Re: [PEIRCE-L] Nominalism and Essentialism are the Scylla and Charybdis that Pragmatism Must Navigate Its Middle Way Between

2017-01-31 Thread kirstima
Hi, Modern positivism, the (future) mainsource of present analytical philosphy has been excellenty described by John F. Sowa in the list. Dichotomic divisions into two, like ontology and epistemology,is the ground for this line of philosophy, by now taken as a common starting point in eleme

Re: [PEIRCE-L] signs, correlates, and triadic relations - The union of the units unifies the unity

2017-02-02 Thread kirstima
Jerry, CSP did use divisions into three, so trichotomies do belong to his philosophy. Only in his latest phase he devoted himself to developing triadicity as his key concept in his theory of the Categories. So, trichotomies of signs, such as icon, index, symbol etc. are OK. But only for the

Re: [PEIRCE-L] Peirce, Wittgenstein and what cannot be said

2017-02-11 Thread kirstima
Stephen, In teh main, I agree. But I do not think they, either one, were in any way "voting FOR" anything, not for religion or anything any individual may choose. They were both making systematic observations on truth & the methodical ways of approaching a true understanding of what is real.

Re: [PEIRCE-L] Nominalism vs. Realism -

2017-02-11 Thread kirstima
Hi John, I just wish to remind that Pythagoreans brought together music and measurement. Ancient Greek tradition did not start with Plato and Aristotle. - The monochord, together with the idea of Universal Lyra was the srarting point to both Plato and Aristotle. Which is full accord with pos

Re: [PEIRCE-L] Nominalism vs. Realism -

2017-02-11 Thread kirstima
I share your surprise, Jerry. Kirsti Jerry LR Chandler kirjoitti 5.2.2017 19:26: John, Edwina, List: I am more than a bit surprised by the assertions that the Middle Ages gave birth to "Empirism". Does anyone have a convenient reference to the historical emergence of this term in philosophy?

Re: [PEIRCE-L] Peirce, Wittgenstein and what cannot be said

2017-02-11 Thread kirstima
Stephen, On the nachlass of Peirce, just see the timelapse in publishing his latest works. It just may be that his latest conclusions are met with some uneasyness by those publishing it. - About Nietzche I do not know. CSP was and remained critical towards his own earlier work. To the end of

Re: [PEIRCE-L] Peirce, Wittgenstein and what cannot be said

2017-02-11 Thread kirstima
One of the most important points of convergence with Wittgenstein and Peirce I find in the note by Wittgenstein when starting his lectures on Mathematics. He opened his lectures by stating: I will not say anything anyone will disagree with. If someone does, I will say something else. (not a quo

Re: [PEIRCE-L] Peirce, Wittgenstein and what cannot be said

2017-02-11 Thread kirstima
Thank you Stephen! The following shows a fine understanding of the deep contextuality of meaning. Stephen Rose: "Which is a swift way to be reminded that we live in the now, not back then." This is something very hard to understand. So true, so true... Kirsti Stephen C. Rose kirjoitti 11.

Re: [PEIRCE-L] Pragmatic Theory Of Truth

2017-03-30 Thread kirstima
John, I wish to draw your attention to this part in you mail: JFS: ... a theory expressed in discrete signs... This statement presupposes that even signs acting as symbols, are discrete. Written statements are put down in the form of discrete parts. But it does not follow that the proposition

[PEIRCE-L] on first, second and third

2017-03-31 Thread kirstima
List, First, Peirce did not adress questions, which did not arise, or were impossible during his time. Thus Prigogine did not bleong to his agenda. Well, then what is Prigogine about, deep down. What are the resemblances, what are the diffenrencies. In physics, a problem has been how to co

Re: [PEIRCE-L] RE: Peirce's categories - and chemical logic

2015-11-09 Thread kirstima
Hi, To my mind, Jerry is right in pointing out a general neglect on the significance of chemistry in Peirce's philosophy. - Today, browsing Essential Peirce, vol 2, I was dismayed, again, with the note of the editors of a footnote of CSP on chemistry, left out. - With the excuse, that it is l

Re: [PEIRCE-L] Vol. 2 of Collected Papers, on Induction

2015-11-09 Thread kirstima
List, Jerry, Peirce was interested in relations, right? - So, with a sentence, he reduced it to a relational rhema, like - fought -. This expresses the ralation of figthing. The lines just express a logical "place", which may be be Harry or Peter, or Kirsti or anyone. This rhema is about a

RE: [PEIRCE-L] RE: signs, correlates, and triadic relations - meta-languages and propositions of triadicity

2015-12-29 Thread kirstima
Dear friends, There are two issues I wish to comment. One is "hypostatic abstraction", the other is the title of this thread. It took me quite some time in the past, to get a clear idea of what CSP means with "hypostatic abstraction". - Well, the conclusion I came into, was just the opposite t

Re: [PEIRCE-L] Re: Abduction, Deduction, Induction, Analogy, Inquiry

2016-03-01 Thread kirstima
List, Jerry, Stephen, It seems to be commonly assumed that CSP created a theory of signs. - Well, amongst other things, he did. - But it was not what he was after. - He was after a theory, or rather a method and methodogy of finding out meanings. By the end of 1800, there was a kind of mania

RE: [PEIRCE-L] Re: Systems Of Interpretation

2016-04-05 Thread kirstima
John & al I have a suggestion for what is missing. By mistake, I sent my suggestion only to Jerry. But perhaps you and Jon are interested in it, as well. - So I'll copy my note below: Jerry, I have not studied this particular triad CSP has presented. - BUT two-dimensional diagrams never pre

Re: [PEIRCE-L] Re: Systems Of Interpretation - Contrasting the diagrams of ammonia and the handedness of carbon compounds.

2016-04-06 Thread kirstima
Jerry, You wrote to me: JLRC:"My purpose is mainly to align the logics in terms of Tarski’s meta-languages, but I will not address that here." KiM: If and when Tarski is your object of thought, my note is completely irrelevant. JLRC: The meta-languages of interest here geometry, matter, num

Re: [PEIRCE-L] Re: Systems Of Interpretation

2016-04-07 Thread kirstima
Jon, list I do remember your three-dimensional visualization of sign relations, Jon. I had no intention of excluding you three-dimensional presentations. I appreciate your work, it just is not my cup of tea. My note to the list was NOT about sign relations, it was about understanding the mea

Re: [PEIRCE-L] Systems Of Interpretation - Contrasting the diagrams of ammonia and the handedness of carbon compounds.

2016-04-07 Thread kirstima
Hi Jerry, list Just a quick resoponse, for now: "Most modern logicians operate off of first order logical premise which roughly translate that logic is an algebra and algebra is a logic. Universality of meaning is, somehow or other, exchanged between algebraic symbols (signs) and logical symbol

Re: [PEIRCE-L] How does one justify something like a "completeness" in a logic of vagueness?

2016-04-09 Thread kirstima
Hi Jerry Rhee, You misunderstand (misinterpret) the sentence by CSP, so your questions go all wrong. On should take time to understand properly, before making inferences. CSP talks about "something like completenes". - No use asking "What exactly is complete" The question is absurd. "s

Re: [PEIRCE-L] Systems Of Interpretation - in Chemistry and Biology

2016-04-19 Thread kirstima
Jerry, list, Your response helped a lot in proceeding towards some answers, hopefully more connecting with your interests & current problems you are seeking to find solutions. (I hope!) First, it now seems clear to me, that your homefield is to be found in naturalistic philosophy. Thus I hea

Re: [PEIRCE-L] Topology, the Gamma Graphs, and representations of self

2016-04-19 Thread kirstima
Hi Charles, Jeffrey & others involved in this tread, I skimmed through the whole below, currently writing (amongs other issues) on Moebius stripe & the bottle of Klein. You may not be aware that the latter was a great question to Lévy-Strauss, the famous ethnologist & mythologist. The question

Re: [PEIRCE-L] Is CP 5.189 a syllogism?

2016-04-25 Thread kirstima
CSP was thoroughly familiar with Aristotle, both his syllogisms and their context in those times. It may be good to remember that Aristotle's works, along all others, were translated into Latin by the time we call the new age. Translations always involve interpretation. Thus what has passed on

Re: [PEIRCE-L] Systems Of Interpretation - in Chemistry and Biology FYI

2016-04-25 Thread kirstima
The idea of meta-languages presents the way of thinking in levels (characteristic to modern age). Thinking in terms of levels involves jumps. Triadic thinking doen not. It incorpotes the idea of growth. Within triadic thinking one may enlarge or diminish the scope, the perspective. At will, p

Re: [PEIRCE-L] Is CP 5.189 a syllogism?

2016-04-25 Thread kirstima
Hi, It depends on what you take a syllogism to consist on. The modern interpretation leaves out the ancient Greek understanding of time. As you most probably know, CSP wa occupied with the problem of time as something constantly evolving all his life. (Thus it is of no use to stic into his ear

Re: [PEIRCE-L] Systems Of Interpretation - in Chemistry and Biology FYI

2016-04-28 Thread kirstima
Clark, I agree with your points. - But I did not use the word "necessarily". As long as one stays within mathematics, what you write: " While none of these are in the Peircean arena, I think they fit in rather well. (Inquiry as a continual generation of higher metalanguage in terms of semiosis)

Re: [PEIRCE-L] Systems Of Interpretation - in Chemistry and Biology FYI

2016-05-01 Thread kirstima
Jerry. Clark, list, Jerry wrote: Of course, things are always more complex than they first appear. I would argue for a completely connected world if my purpose were metaphysical in nature. But, language itself separates the world from its totality into manageable parts. And culture has found it

Re: [PEIRCE-L] Systems Of Interpretation - in Chemistry and Biology FYI

2016-05-01 Thread kirstima
Jerry, list, My comments are inserted. Jerry LR Chandler kirjoitti 29.4.2016 16:15: Kristi, Clark, List: On Apr 29, 2016, at 12:05 AM, kirst...@saunalahti.fi wrote: The most common form these problems appear, is in the form of just jumping from "the level of individuals" (be they chemical re

Re: [PEIRCE-L] Re: 6 vectors and 3 inference patterns

2016-05-12 Thread kirstima
Well put, Jon Alan! Most happy to read such a clear statement. Kirsti Jon Alan Schmidt kirjoitti 12.5.2016 04:33: Gary R., List: Quick thought ... "The irritation of doubt causes a struggle to attain a state of belief." (CP 5.374) The first phase of inquiry is abduction, which begins when an

Re: [PEIRCE-L] Re: Determination, etc.

2016-05-12 Thread kirstima
Clark, An excellent & clear statement. I agree with all points you take up. Kirsti Clark Goble kirjoitti 10.5.2016 00:33: On May 9, 2016, at 1:45 PM, Jon Awbrey wrote: I read Peirce primarily for his insights into logic, mathematics, and science, which are considerable enough for several l

Re: [PEIRCE-L] on the reality of objects

2016-06-12 Thread kirstima
Clark, Thank you very much for your posts on this thread. Greatly appreciated! Also, Neglegted Argument has been my favorite piece since I started with CSP. The question of the reality of God has always seemed to me to be a critical question to pose in front of anything Peirce wrote. However

Re: [PEIRCE-L] Parker's propositions on the development of CSP's categories of Logic

2016-06-16 Thread kirstima
Hi, My distant memories tell me that I took up Parker's book in the hope of finding there something essential & important about the concept of continuity in CSP's work. I was quite disappointed in finding out that the book was about continuity between the phases of theorizing in the writings o

Re: [PEIRCE-L] Parker's propositions on the development of CSP's categories of Logic

2016-06-17 Thread kirstima
Jerry, list, I have never found divisions of signs (trichotomies) of much use. And I cannot see how they could work with proposisional functions. So I cannot be of help in your questions. Kirsti Jerry LR Chandler kirjoitti 16.6.2016 18:25: List, Kirsti: On Jun 16, 2016, at 9:12 AM, kirst..

Re: [PEIRCE-L] Peirce, Epistemology and Immortality

2016-07-02 Thread kirstima
Clark, There is a deep problem involved with attepts to give any just epistemological explanations of CSP's views on doubt. He states, for example, that you should not pretend to doubt anythinf you do not doubt in your heart. (This is, of course,pointed against Descartes.) - But 'heart' here

Re: [PEIRCE-L] Copula and Being

2016-07-02 Thread kirstima
Clark, Jerry R., list, It seems to me you evade Jerry's question, Clark. A very sensible question to me, well worth an answer to the question, not just beside it. As we all know, CSP took himself to be a laboratory minded philosopher, in contrast with seminary minded philosophers. That is, h

Re: [PEIRCE-L] Triadic Philosophy Works in All Contexts

2016-07-04 Thread kirstima
Stephen, I very good & most relevant quote you provided. Kirsti Stephen C. Rose kirjoitti 3.7.2016 15:00: The reasoning of Triadic Philosophy works in all contexts. This is a remarkable claim in a world where the barriers between disciplines grow higher and it is hard to have discussions becaus

Re: [PEIRCE-L] Copula and Being

2016-07-05 Thread kirstima
CLARK GOBLE kirjoitti 4.7.2016 07:53: On Jul 2, 2016, at 5:58 AM, kirst...@saunalahti.fi wrote: KiM: It seems to me you evade Jerry's question, Clark. A very sensible question to me, well worth an answer to the question, not just beside it. CG: I’m not sure I was evading it so much as expla

Re: [PEIRCE-L] Mind evolving

2016-07-16 Thread kirstima
Ben, A most interesting & valuable post! I do hope all involved in this discussion will pay attention to this response of yours. Kirsti Ben Novak kirjoitti 16.7.2016 21:00: Dear Helmut and List: Helmut asks: "Can things take habits?" Discussion of Peirce's theory of habit reminds me of G

Re: [PEIRCE-L] The auhor's claim: There is no *distinctly* scientific method

2016-07-23 Thread kirstima
Jon Alan, I fully agree!!! Kirsti Jon Alan Schmidt kirjoitti 20.7.2016 04:15: Stefan, List: You wrote ... It would be much better to teach practicing scientists the philosophy, history and sociology of science. This would be enlightenment in science... The same is true for engineers and en

[PEIRCE-L] A note to sign out

2020-04-23 Thread kirstima
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