Gene,
Let me say first of all, that I meant to specifically reject that
Hobbesonian notion of man in a state of nature, man as feral, and to
affirm that the state of nature for the human is to be socialized and
languagized. Looking back upon what I wrote, I think it must have been
the
Dear Gene,
28.9.2006 kello 07:59, Eugene Halton kirjoitti:
If I understand your criticism that the social should not be excluded from the
method of tenacity, you are saying that much research today goes on under
Darwin-like survival of the fittest rules: research by tenacity in a
competitive
Gary: How Emersonian. As I said, I am too ignorant to make pronouncements
on Peirce. I suppose I shouldn't be surprised that Peirce was a man of his
times--and that he obviously spent too much time with Emerson's godson. :=)
Should you find any Swedenborgian passages in Peirce, please don't
Bill, list,
In addition to the story of Genie, there's plenty of evidence in
developmental psychology that reasoning, and indeed language, is a
social phenomenon. I'd mention Vygotsky and Tomasello, but then i'd have
to leave out all the others.
I'm surprised to see this part of your message
Gary:
This is not the venue for debating the similarities and contrasts between
traditional Occident and Orient. I'll respond as briefly as I can, and we
can proceed through personal e-mails if you like. First, an agreement: if
you abstract all particularity--an example would be Huxley's The
Bill and Gary,
Bill Bailey wrote:
This is not the venue for debating the similarities and contrasts
between traditional Occident and Orient.
However, Gary's comment that he sees a close parallel to Peirce's ideal
of scientific method (or of the motivation for it) in the bodhisattva
ideal
Gary R.
The bhodisattva relinquishes escape from the great wheel of death and birth
and union with the Absolute to help others achieve enlightenment. Thus the
bhodisattva is reborn again and again into the world of suffering with no
reward except doing the work. About the only western
Dear Joe,
I agree with your characterization of the
scientific method as including the distinctive elements of the other
three. You have clarified the issue in a way that is very helpful to
me. I agree as well thattakenindividually each of the lst
three methods(tenacity, authority and
--- unaccustomed as I am to public digressions
Best wishes,
Jim Piat
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Jim, Joe, List:
This discussion brought to mind the co
Bill, I included some comments in the middle
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Jim,
I'd be the first to characterize the reports on the
feral children as "iffy." But have you read the account of
"Genie"? She was aCalifornia child who was kept in isolation
in an upstairs room, strapped for hour to a potty
Dear Joe,
What you say below is all very interesting to
me. I hope you do give another go at writing up how lst three
methodsexemplify some of the major ways in which our problem solving goes
astray. I think the three methods (while each having an attractive virtue)
if used exclusively or
Dear Folks,
I notice that Peirces lst three methods of fixing
believe are part of the fourth or scientific method.Science is basically a
method that gathers multiplebeliefs and combines them with reason to
produce warranted belief. Individual belief (without resort to any
authority other
Dear Folks,
Part of what I'm trying to say is that its not as
though the scientific method were an entirely independent alternative to the
other three methods. On the contrary the scientific method is built upon
and incorporates the other three methods. The lst threeare not
discredited
inguishing the same factors, except that I use the
publication of the resulting research claim as the place in the process
where these factors show up as essential aspects of the claim made.
Joe
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Dear Eugene,
Thanks for an inspiring mail. The idea of a progressively broadening
social conception I find a very fruitful one, enriching the idea of a
logical ordering. This, together with your exhilarating
thought-experiment with
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