ht further would take considerable time and
space, so I'll stop here.
--Jeff
Jeffrey Downard
Associate Professor
Department of Philosophy
Northern Arizona University
(o) 928 523-8354
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From: g...@gnusystems.ca [g...@gnusystems.ca]
Sent: Wednesday, Fe
Jeff, your post seems to head in directions I'm unable to follow, so I'll
just mention this: the final two selections in Moore's "Philosophy of
Mathematics" collection are probably the best tools for "filling in the gap"
in Peirce's thinking between arrival of the proofs of the article and the
Jeff and Gary,
JBD
I'm wondering if anyone can explain in greater detail what Peirce
is suggesting in this passage in making the comparison between the
atomic weight of oxygen and the continuity of Time
GF
I think the claim is that our experience of time is the prototype
for all conceptions
Jeff, list,
I was struck by that passage too, but I don’t think Peirce’s claim is “that the
continuity of our experience of time can serve as a kind of standard for
measure.” Rather I think the claim is that our experience of time is the
prototype for all conceptions of a perfect continuum.
List,
I've been trying to sort through the points Peirce is making about topology and
the mathematical conception of continuity in the last lecture of RLT. In the
attempts to trace the development of the ideas concerning the conceptions of
continua, furcations and dimensions in his later
