Re: [PEIRCE-L] [biosemiotics:8389] Re: Natural Propositions, Ch.

2015-04-23 Thread Howard Pattee
At 08:00 AM 4/23/2015, Frederik Stjernfelt wrote: [snip] In general, it is the universal, formal aspects of reasoning processes which Peirce refers to as logical - while the way they are implemented in the human mind is taken to be a different (not less important) issue. Agreed. But there is

Re: [PEIRCE-L] [biosemiotics:8389] Re: Natural Propositions, Ch.

2015-04-22 Thread Howard Pattee
At 04:38 PM 4/21/2015, Frederik Stjernfelt wrote: But I'd be really curious to hear more about your take on the corollarial/theorematic distinction ! Since you ask, here are a few thoughts. In my opinion, the corollarial-theorematic distinction is a case of the more general induction-abduction

Re: [PEIRCE-L] [biosemiotics:8389] Re: Natural Propositions, Ch.

2015-04-21 Thread Frederik Stjernfelt
Dear Howard, lists - At 10:20 AM 4/21/2015, Frederik Stjernfelt wrote: Howard said: There are no a priori foods as illustrated by the many extremotrophshttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Extremotroph. FS: Haha! But that is not the argument. The argument that the categories food and poison are a