Re: [peirce-l] “On the Paradigm of Experience Appropriate for Semiotic”

2011-11-26 Thread Jon Awbrey
* Comments on the Peirce List slow reading of Joseph Ransdell, On the Paradigm of Experience Appropriate for Semiotic, http://www.cspeirce.com/menu/library/aboutcsp/ransdell/paradigm.htm Re: Comments by Auke van Breemen Auke, I thought it best to go back and recover the context before

Re: [peirce-l] SLOW READ: On the Paradigm of Experience Appropriate for Semiotic

2011-11-26 Thread Määttänen Kirsti
Steven, list, On 25.11.2011, at 13.02, Steven Ericsson-Zenith wrote: Dear Kristi, By your analysis is there any logical or otherwise substantive distinction, aside from the syntax, between the abbreviated statement: No distinction is to be drawn between the empirical and the

Re: [peirce-l] SLOW READ: On the Paradigm of Experience Appropriate for Semiotic

2011-11-26 Thread Gary Fuhrman
Kirsti, It seems to me quite a stretch to interpret Joe's explicit thesis as being against the common distinction between theory and practice, as you wrote in your message to Steven: [[ With putting in the word 'theory' you implicate the common distinction between theory and practice. Which

[peirce-l] Thoughts On Normative Sciences

2011-11-26 Thread Jon Awbrey
A distinction can be made between prescriptive ethics, which advises what a person should do in absolute terms, and normative or pragmatic ethics, which advises what a person should do in order to achieve the admirable or the good in itself that is determined by a prior consideration of