Bill Bailey earthlink.net> writes:
Sept 29:
��Levi-Strauss argues that there is no real difference in terms of
complexity
between "primitive" and scientific thought; he found the primitive's
categories and structurings in botany, for example, to be as complex as any
western textbook might
I am very sorry to hear of Arnold's death and send my
condolences. He will be missed.
Gene Halton
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Kirsti Mtt��nen saunalahti.fi> writes:
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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 an e
Dear Joe,
The
ordering of the methods seems to me to be based on a progressively
broadening social conception:
1 You believe what you believe.
2 You believe what you are forced by social power to believe or can force
on others to believe.
3 You believe what you take to be intrinsically
May 13, 2005
Dear Kirsti,
Thanks. Glad to hear you enjoyed those early articles. Re truth giving to
beauty, see below.
Dear Jeff,
You ask how a poem can be an argument in Peirces sense, related to the
context of him describing the universe as an argument that is
necessarily
a great poem.
Per
Kirsti M:
The entelechy or perfection of being Peirce here
refers to is something never attained to full, but strived at, again and
again. Just as with science and scientific knowledge. It's about striving
to approach, better and better, The Truth. If there ever would be an end,
the absolute pe
Dear Gary and il-young son,
Yes, I
agree that Peirce saw Darwinian natural selection as corresponding to
tychism, that is, as one modality of evolution, to which Peirce added two
others, corresponding to his three categories and comprising a tri-modal
model of evolution. As he said in "E
Dear Gary,
Thanks for
the link to Lee Smolin's piece. I enjoyed reading it. Then, stepping away
from it, it occurred to me that comparing Darwin and Einstein, while
taking from Peirce the idea that laws of nature are results of natural
selection, represents no "dangerous ideas" at all, o
Dear Joe,
I realize you didn't want to go further in this discussion, but I just
want to comment on something. Thanks for the definition of heathen, which,
with its connection of religious beliefs to locale and landscape, actually
could be taken as complimentary, just as the term civilization
