Phyllis Chiasson: Since language only has meaning within contexts, change the
context and you are likely to change meaning altogether.
Gary Moore: “Change” yes, sometimes even great “change”. However, one should be
aware of this, and, for a varied and many times antagonistic audience that
Thanks Ben. I heartily concur on dropping the thread. There is little
indication that anyone is interested in the specific H. Sluga paper or the
priority principle as put forth in that paper. Jim W
Date: Fri, 11 May 2012 22:42:12 -0400
From: bud...@nyc.rr.com
Subject: Re: [peirce-l] Frege
Gary, Phyllis, list,
The use of ambiguity and precision or clarity as antonyms is what
I. A. Richards might have called a killer dichotomy[1] which doesn't
recognize they are all on the continuum of discourse academic as well as
ordinary. Before a more precise term can be used by more than
Dear John Harvey,
Gary Moore: Absolutely excellent! Before a more precise term can be used by
more than one person, someone has to define and explain it in the less precise
(i.e. more ambiguous) vocabulary that is already understood by others. The
limited communication which ambiguity provides
Gary M., list,
In the passage that you quote from EP 2: 266, what Peirce says is,
[] This scholastic terminology has passed into English speech
more than into any other modern tongue, rendering it the most
logically exact of any. This has been accomplished at the
inconvenience
