[peirce-l] Re: What's going on here?

2006-03-04 Thread Frances Kelly
Frances to Thomas and listers... There may for many persons be some things that are outside the scope and venue of objective semiotics or logic and not be prone as objects of study to the laws of scientific belief, such as articles of religious faith for example, but not for Peirce and his brand

[peirce-l] Peirce Epicurean texts

2006-03-04 Thread [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Hello. This is my first post to this listserv. It was suggested to me by my professor that people on this list might have some input regarding a question I am starting to pursue, and that I might consider sending out a message. So I am doing so. I am examining Peirce's various statements and

[peirce-l] Peirce invented the electric switching computer?

2006-03-04 Thread Steven Ericsson Zenith
Dear List, There is a very nice and copyright free bio of Peirce from NOAA that I have copied into Panopedia for reference here: http://www.panopedia.org/index.php/Charles_Sanders_Peirce#NOAA_Giants_of_Science The article is unattributed and makes the following claim, that Peirce was: "

[peirce-l] Peirce invented the electric switching computer?

2006-03-04 Thread Thomas Riese
Letter Peirce to Marquand, L 269, 30 December 1886 in W5, p.422,423 Thomas. On Sat, 04 Mar 2006 21:30:30 +0100, Steven Ericsson Zenith [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Dear List, There is a very nice and copyright free bio of Peirce from NOAA that I have copied into Panopedia for reference

[peirce-l] Re: What's going on here?

2006-03-04 Thread Thomas Riese
On Sat, 04 Mar 2006 17:14:53 +0100, Frances Kelly [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: To the extent therefore that some consciousness is interpretable and translatable, then it is all conceivably and probably an objective logical construct. Indeed, all of subjectivity would then fall under this

[peirce-l] Re: Peirce invented the electric switching computer?

2006-03-04 Thread Jim Piat
Dear Steven, In Ken Ketner's book "His Glassy Essence" it is mentioned on page 196 that Peirce's brother, Ben "met Charles Babbage to discuss mechanized computing"... For whatever that's worth. I believe Ken Ketner is an electrical engineer as well as philosopher, biographer, etc and may

[peirce-l] RE: Are there authorities on authority?

2006-03-04 Thread Jim Piat
Larry Sanger wrote: This question--who authorizes the authorities--really lies at the heart of social epistemology, and reminds me of an essay I read in grad school, Egoism in Epistemology by Richard Foley (in *Socializing Epistemology*--I just pulled the book off the shelf). Among other things

[peirce-l] Re: Peirce invented the electric switching computer?

2006-03-04 Thread Steven Ericsson Zenith
My thanks Thomas, can you please clarify to which document "W5" refers. Thanks, Steven Thomas Riese wrote: Letter Peirce to Marquand, L 269, 30 December 1886 in W5, p.422,423 Thomas. On Sat, 04 Mar 2006 21:30:30 +0100, Steven Ericsson Zenith  [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:

[peirce-l] Re: Peirce invented the electric switching computer?

2006-03-04 Thread Joseph Ransdell
Steven: Thomas is referring to Writings of CSP, vol. 5. It contains a copy of a letter of Dec 30, 1886, of which there is a copy (with an image of a page from it), to Allan Marquand in which Peirce explains to Marquand how the electronic switch (the logic gate) would work, with a simple

[peirce-l] Re: Peirce invented the electric switching computer?

2006-03-04 Thread Thomas Riese
Sorry Steven, it's the Writings of Charles S. Peirce, A Chronological Edition. on page 422 Peirce gives a description and two drawings (for an AND and an OR gate) together with the electrical batteries and all. On page 423 there is a reproduction of the original manuscript page. The letter

[peirce-l] Re: NEW ELEMENTS: So what is it all about?

2006-03-04 Thread Thomas Riese
Dear Ben, thanks for your reply, I'll respond as soon as possible in detail. The transitivity is not so much of an issue. I can explain that. Asymmetry then isn't a problem either. The difficulty was, to find out what the true (logical) nature of quasi-periodicity is. I can show that Peirce's