[peirce-l] Re: What is nothiing? (was, Introduction)

2006-02-14 Thread Darrel Summers
-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 six years (he's 10 now), the arrangment hav

[peirce-l] Re: What is nothiing? (was, Introduction)

2006-02-13 Thread Arnold Shepperson
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 that

[peirce-l] Re: What is nothiing? (was, Introduction)

2006-02-13 Thread Darrel Summers
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 worriedabout nothing..." (I think when she says worried she means fascinated) We will be following

[peirce-l] Re: What is nothiing? (was, Introduction)

2006-02-13 Thread Gary Richmond
Darrel, You wrote that: Grace thinks it is quite amusing that so many "smart grown-ups are worriedabout 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 mean