Bill, Darrel, List
BB: Bill Bailey
AS: Arnold Shepperson
DS: Darrel Summers
BB: ... my take on raising children is that it completes us as adults byforcing us through all of life's cliches we were convinced we were too sophisticated to experience, and further humbles us as we discover ours
*From:* Arnold Shepperson <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
*To:* Peirce Discussion Forum <mailto:peirce-l@lyris.ttu.edu>
*Sent:* Tuesday, February 14, 2006 3:38 AM
*Subject:* [peirce-l] Re: "What is nothiing?" (was, Introduction)
Gary, Darrel, List
Having a c
2006 3:38
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Subject: [peirce-l] Re: "What is
nothiing?" (was, Introduction)
Gary, Darrel, List
Having a child in the house does put one's adulthood between a rock and a
hard place, sometimes. My partner's grandson has been living with us for
about s
Gary, Darrel, List
Having a child in the house does put one's adulthood between a rock and a hard place, sometimes. My partner's grandson has been living with us for about six years (he's 10 now), the arrangment having become permanent since his dad died of AIDS two years ago. Although he hasn'
Sorry for an other hit and run post. Gary quoted CP 6.211 on nothing.It is true that there is another sort of zero which is a limit. Such is the vague zero of indeterminacy. But a limit involves Secondness prominently, and besides that, Thirdness. In fact, the generality of indeterminacy marks its
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So we can get back to the original question, maybe for a few minutes
anyway, while she has "nothing" to do.
Regards,
Darrel Summers
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David, Darrel, List,
Thanks for the Century Dictionary entry on nothing, David. You wrote:
Nothing truly is something peculiar.
Even before I became acquainted with Peirce's writings I remember
taking long "thinking on my feet" nature walks which I characterized as
contemplating "nothing in
quot;nothing" to do.
Regards,
Darrel Summers
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From: Gary Richmond
To: Peirce Discussion Forum
Sent: Monday, February 13, 2006 9:06 AM
Subject: [peirce-l] Re: "What is nothiing?" (was, Introduction)
Darrel,
You wrote that: Grace thinks it is quite
Darrel Summers
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*From:* Gary Richmond <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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Subject: [peirce-l] Re: "What is
nothiing?" (was, Introduction)
Darrel, You wrote that:
Grace thinks it is quite amusing that so
many "smart grown-ups are worried about nothing..." (I think when
she say
Darrel,
You wrote that:
Grace thinks it is quite amusing
that so many "smart grown-ups are worried about nothing..." (I think
when she says worried she means fascinated)
"From the mouths of babes. . ." Sometimes I worry too that grown-ups
are "fascinated about nothing" by which I
Gary,
I appreciate your plunge! I spent the weekend
reading with great interest the posts related to Grace's question, and Grace
thinks it is quite amusing that so many "smart grown-ups are worried about
nothing..." (I think when she says worried she means fascinated) We
will be followin
Arnold, Darrel, list,
Arnold wrote:
In many respects, though, I think that there
was something kind of
childish about Peirce, right to the end (see the Essay on Reasoning in
Uberty and Security in EP2), to the point that the likes of Simon
Newcomb could blind him with sophistication.
Would
Darrel, Gary
First to Darrel: welcome.
To both: one wouldn't call Agnes Heller a Peircean, but in her A Radical Philosophy of 1985, she characterises philosophy as the intellectual activity that is afraid neither ask nor to confront `childish questions'. In many respects, though, I think tha
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