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Sent: 14-Feb-18 14:23
To: PEIRCE L <PEIRCE-L@list.iupui.edu>
Subject: RE: [PEIRCE-L] Pragmatic Maxims and mediation (Was Lowell
Lectures)
Gary f., list,
Your response presented as full an understanding of essential points
in my post as I could ever hope. Even
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To: PEIRCE L <PEIRCE-L@list.iupui.edu>
Subject: RE: [PEIRCE-L] Pragmatic Maxims and mediation (Was Lowell Lectures)
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 sur
Jon, list,
I often recommend close reading when examining the pragmatic maxim.
Perhaps no better example than to suggest it of #1 (CP 5.402), for there is
something missing in your transcription and it makes all the difference.
With best wishes,
Jerry R
On Wed, Feb 14, 2018 at 2:21 PM, Jon
List:
With respect to the comments below from both Kirsti and Gary F., as the old
joke goes, "I resemble that remark." I am definitely someone who "often
finds that the thought is changed by the act of writing it down," and I
generally spend a lot of time (probably too much; almost an hour just
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
Kirsti,
I did give your post on ordinality and cardinality a second reading, and I
think I see your point, but I don’t have any particular response to it, except
to say that these logico-mathematical issues are likely to arise again as we
move on to Lowell Lectures 4 and 5, where Peirce has
