Re: [PEIRCE-L] A question for pragmatists

2023-06-04 Thread John F Sowa
Jon, Your note of April 20 (copied below) is indeed a serious question for pragmatists. It contains claims and assumptions that Peirce would not accept. I'll start with an issue we had discussed some time ago. I wrote that the Christians who translated the Greek New Testament to Chinese

Re: [PEIRCE-L] A question for pragmatists, was, Comments on the nature and purpose of Peirce-L, was, The Basis of Synechism in Phaneroscopy

2023-04-27 Thread Gary Richmond
List, Peirce-L subscriber, Atila Bayat, meant to send this post to the entire forum, but posted it to me. He's asked me to resend it for him. See directly below. GR Gary, I wanted to answer an earlier thread, of yours but lost the cue. Much or all of our public media has our intellectuals in a

Re: [PEIRCE-L] A question for pragmatists

2023-04-26 Thread Jeffrey Brian Downard
Schmidt Sent: Tuesday, April 25, 2023 5:19 PM To: Peirce-L Subject: Re: [PEIRCE-L] A question for pragmatists Jeff, List: You and I seem to be more or less on the same page here, along with Martin in light of his helpful clarification that avoiding "originalism" and "endism

Re: [PEIRCE-L] A question for pragmatists

2023-04-25 Thread Jon Alan Schmidt
Jeff, List: You and I seem to be more or less on the same page here, along with Martin in light of his helpful clarification that avoiding "originalism" and "endism" simply means recognizing that inquiry has no definite beginning or end--just like the universe in Peirce's cosmology, and

Re: [PEIRCE-L] A question for pragmatists

2023-04-25 Thread Jeffrey Brian Downard
would take some work. Yours, Jeff From: peirce-l-requ...@list.iupui.edu on behalf of g...@gnusystems.ca Sent: Tuesday, April 25, 2023 6:44 AM To: 'Peirce-L' Subject: RE: [PEIRCE-L] A question for pragmatists Jon, I think that’s a fair description of Peirce’s

RE: [PEIRCE-L] A question for pragmatists

2023-04-25 Thread gnox
p/> https://gnusystems.ca/wp/ }{ <https://gnusystems.ca/TS/> Turning Signs From: peirce-l-requ...@list.iupui.edu On Behalf Of Jon Alan Schmidt Sent: Monday, April 24, 2023 9:05 PM To: Peirce-L Subject: Re: [PEIRCE-L] A question for pragmatists Gary F., List: I doubt that Peirce's

Re: [PEIRCE-L] A question for pragmatists

2023-04-24 Thread Jon Alan Schmidt
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RE: [PEIRCE-L] A question for pragmatists

2023-04-24 Thread gnox
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RE: [PEIRCE-L] A question for pragmatists

2023-04-24 Thread gnox
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Re: [PEIRCE-L] A question for pragmatists

2023-04-21 Thread Martin W. Kettelhut
Dear Jon & everyone following this string, You ask what I mean by originalism and endism in the context of practical deliberation. Quick review of where we’re at...Science is an open system, based on probabilities. And, according to Peirce, the evolving practice of science is guided by three

Re: [PEIRCE-L] A question for pragmatists

2023-04-21 Thread Martin W. Kettelhut
Gary, and Peirce-list; To your two questions, Gary…(and keep in mind that I’m still working all of this out) 1) What does the “pulling" in a leadership relationship is the future (vs the leader or the follower) that leader and follower are committed to. They are pulled forward together by the

Re: [PEIRCE-L] A question for pragmatists

2023-04-21 Thread Daniel L Everett
Thanks Jon. The Cog Math paper looks great. (Will see if my computer will get the first link better than my iphone). DanOn Apr 21, 2023, at 11:53, Jon Alan Schmidt wrote:Dan, List:Sorry, the first link seems to be working fine for me, but the second one is indeed broken. Please try 

Re: [PEIRCE-L] A question for pragmatists

2023-04-21 Thread Jon Alan Schmidt
Gary R., Harris, List: For the record, I deliberately chose "drawing" as the verb for my description of leading in accordance with 3ns rather than 2ns, because "pulling" strikes me as having the same efficient-causal forcefulness as "pushing." Genuine followers, whom we might call "disciples,"

Re: [PEIRCE-L] A question for pragmatists

2023-04-21 Thread Jon Alan Schmidt
Dan, List: Sorry, the first link seems to be working fine for me, but the second one is indeed broken. Please try https://rd.springer.com/referenceworkentry/10.1007/978-3-030-44982-7_25-1 instead. Thanks, Jon On Fri, Apr 21, 2023 at 10:36 AM Daniel L Everett wrote: > Perhaps it is my iphone

Re: [PEIRCE-L] A question for pragmatists

2023-04-21 Thread Daniel L Everett
Perhaps it is my iphone but I did not have any luck with those links Jon. DanOn Apr 21, 2023, at 09:49, Jon Alan Schmidt wrote:Martin, List:Indeed, I have argued in publications about structural engineering (https://www.structuremag.org/?p=10373) and cognitive mathematics

Re: [PEIRCE-L] A question for pragmatists

2023-04-21 Thread Jon Alan Schmidt
Martin, List: Indeed, I have argued in publications about structural engineering ( https://www.structuremag.org/?p=10373) and cognitive mathematics ( https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-44982-7_25-1) that the logic of *inquiry *as explicated by Peirce can be adapted to outline the logic of

Re: [PEIRCE-L] A question for pragmatists

2023-04-20 Thread Harris Bolus
Gary, Jon, All: Jon left us with some very interesting quotes that I, like Gary, would love more discussion about! Maybe this can spur some of the discussion. 1) *"the theory of logic, in so far as we attain to it, is the vision and the attainment of that Reasonableness for the sake of which the

Re: [PEIRCE-L] A question for pragmatists

2023-04-20 Thread Gary Richmond
Martin, Jon, List, If we agree that 'logic is rooted in the social impulse' and that pursuing -- in our daily thought and actions -- Peirce's summum bonum of directing these impulses to 'the reasonable in itself', that leadership is yet necessary, then Jon's notion of a leadership style of

Re: [PEIRCE-L] A question for pragmatists

2023-04-20 Thread Martin W. Kettelhut
Thank you, Jon. You nailed the essence of the inquiry in leadership I’m conducting. Which leads me to say, more generally that whether we’re looking at life as consumers or voters, family- or community members, and we want to go about it pragmatically, then we want to about it as inquirers,

Re: [PEIRCE-L] A question for pragmatists

2023-04-20 Thread Jon Alan Schmidt
Martin, Gary R., List: The challenge that we face as Peirceans today is advocating not only scholastic realism and objective idealism in an intellectual climate of widespread (and often uncritical) nominalism and materialism, but also value monism in an intellectual climate of widespread

Re: [PEIRCE-L] A question for pragmatists, was, Comments on the nature and purpose of Peirce-L, was, The Basis of Synechism in Phaneroscopy

2023-04-20 Thread Martin W. Kettelhut
I appreciate your response, Gary. Yes, serving our world as pragmatists is fundamentally about leading our lives as expressions of the summum bonum, and the passages from Peirce’s papers rooting the logic of probability in the "social impulse” are at the core of the book I’m writing on

[PEIRCE-L] A question for pragmatists, was, Comments on the nature and purpose of Peirce-L, was, The Basis of Synechism in Phaneroscopy

2023-04-19 Thread Gary Richmond
Martin, List, Thanks for joining our 10 minute thesis presentation this past Saturday and for your post to Peirce-L today. I think that your suggestion that "there’s a. . . fundamental and urgent question to ask ourselves about how to insinuate realism in a nominalist/individualist world" points