Aw: Re: [PEIRCE-L] What's The Use?

2014-10-02 Thread Helmut Raulien
Jon, Edwina, List, you wrote: (...) "normative science (...) seeks knowledge regarding the relative values of its objects, (...)", and these objects are signs. Truth is mostly seen as a digital value (either yes or no, with no gradient in between). Peirce too sees it like that, I think, in his co

Aw: Re: [PEIRCE-L] What's The Use?

2014-10-01 Thread Helmut Raulien
Dear Edwina, passive negation is eg.: "I do not think, that A is B". This can be, because I have not made up my mind yet, or, because I am not interested in A and B, or, because I have not understood it, or, because I do not believe either in the well-definedness of the concept of A, or B, or both