[peirce-l] Re: NEW ELEMENTS (KAINA STOICHEIA) available at Arisbe

2006-01-25 Thread Clark Goble
On Jan 25, 2006, at 1:59 AM, Drs.W.T.M. Berendsen wrote: It is not clear to me however why this would not belong to the linguistic turn in philosophy. Is linguistic turn not "just" some terminology to describe emphasis on language by philosophers like, among others, thoughts belonging to sem

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2006-01-25 Thread Bill Bailey
Jean-Marc Orliaguet wrote: > Yes, but the question is not whether one "understands what is being > seen". This is another issue. Interpretation of what is seen is a > different process. Interpretation wasn't the issue; it was the extent of the requisite mediation. Bill Bailey wrote: J-M

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2006-01-25 Thread Drs.W.T.M. Berendsen
Well actually I regard Derrida as excellent exactly because he is focusing almost solely on language and ideas/mind. It is not clear to me however why this would not belong to the linguistic turn in philosophy. Is linguistic turn not "just" some terminology to describe emphasis on language by philo

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2006-01-25 Thread Drs.W.T.M. Berendsen
Also, while it is clear that no sign actually functions as such in the absence of interpretation, the question of whether an *interpreter* is required may be the kind of metaphysical question that Peirce declines to enter into in this essay (EP2, 314). gary F. well the above sentence

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2006-01-25 Thread Drs.W.T.M. Berendsen
Just some question. Can anybody maybe send me the Peirce notions of mediacy and immediacy and direct versus indirect the texts I mean. Or where I can find them. I searched in the dictionary but get some files I can not open. If anyone can send them offlist to me at [EMAIL PROTECTED] I would appreci

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2006-01-24 Thread Jean-Marc Orliaguet
Bill Bailey wrote: J-Mo: > interesting notion in this context. Adding glasses or telescopes between > the perceiver and the object perceived does not make the act of > perception more or less direct in its nature. Well, I guess it becomes a question of degree at some point. The telescope or

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2006-01-24 Thread Clark Goble
On Jan 24, 2006, at 1:50 PM, Clark Goble wrote: On Jan 24, 2006, at 5:58 AM, Drs.W.T.M. Berendsen wrote: Together with Umberto Eco, Jacques Derrida and other philosophers interested in the linguistic turns of philosophy a true master of this art. And a passage in Peirce talking about rela

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2006-01-24 Thread martin lefebvre
Title: [peirce-l] Re: NEW ELEMENTS (KAINA STOICHEIA) available at Jean-Marc, Bill, Clark, Joe, and List, In the second of the 1903 Harvard Lectures Peirce writes: "Kant, Reid, and others talk of the immediate perception of externality. As a matter of words, merely, I think it is better to spea

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2006-01-24 Thread Benjamin Udell
to heteronym. (I should have spent this time looking at the definitions of mediate, immediate, direct, indirect. I simply have to quit for the night!) Best, Ben - Original Message ----- From: "Joseph Ransdell" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Peirce Discu

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2006-01-24 Thread Joseph Ransdell
: I want to follow up on some of the things you are saying in your recent post about the distinction-sets, Ben, but it will be tomorrow before I can get to that. Joe Ransdell - Original Message - From: "Bill Bailey" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Peirce Discussion Forum

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2006-01-24 Thread Bill Bailey
J-Mo: > interesting notion in this context. Adding glasses or telescopes between > the perceiver and the object perceived does not make the act of > perception more or less direct in its nature. Well, I guess it becomes a question of degree at some point. The telescope or microscope might or

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2006-01-24 Thread Jean-Marc Orliaguet
Bill Bailey wrote: JR, J-MO, List: All information occurs in a medium of some kind, so immediacy must ultimately be understood more as theoretical than actual. The radiant energy of light striking our eyes is not what the optical nerve carries to the brain, but rather electro-chemical analo

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2006-01-24 Thread Gary Richmond
I want to add to Clark's my thanks to Ben for doing a terrific job with  the blog space peircematters which is, due to his efforts, easy to navigate & looking very good, I'd encourage all listers who haven't already done so to take at least a glance at http://peircematters.blogspot.com/ Gary

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2006-01-24 Thread Clark Goble
On Jan 24, 2006, at 12:49 PM, Bill Bailey wrote: All information occurs in a medium of some kind, so immediacy must ultimately be understood more as theoretical than actual. There is also the issue of Peirce's notion of continuity. I wonder (merely throwing ideas out) if one ought perhaps c

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2006-01-24 Thread Clark Goble
On Jan 24, 2006, at 9:17 AM, Benjamin Udell wrote: Mark, Joe, Clark, list, First, a general note to the list. I've finally put the Century Dictionary definitions of words like "empirical," "experience," and "pragmatic" at http://peircematters.blogspot.com . I've finally found no way to m

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2006-01-24 Thread Clark Goble
On Jan 24, 2006, at 5:58 AM, Drs.W.T.M. Berendsen wrote: Together with Umberto Eco, Jacques Derrida and other philosophers interested in the linguistic turns of philosophy a true master of this art. And a passage in Peirce talking about relation between metaphysics, logic and arts like rhet

[peirce-l] Re: NEW ELEMENTS (KAINA STOICHEIA) available at Arisbe

2006-01-24 Thread Bill Bailey
Let me correct something: for "perceptual experience" substitute "immediate sensory data." Bill Bailey wrote: JR, J-MO, List: All information occurs in a medium of some kind, so immediacy must ultimately be understood more as theoretical than actual. The radiant energy of light striking our

[peirce-l] Re: NEW ELEMENTS (KAINA STOICHEIA) available at Arisbe

2006-01-24 Thread Bill Bailey
JR, J-MO, List: All information occurs in a medium of some kind, so immediacy must ultimately be understood more as theoretical than actual. The radiant energy of light striking our eyes is not what the optical nerve carries to the brain, but rather electro-chemical analogues of it. It does

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2006-01-24 Thread Jean-Marc Orliaguet
Joseph Ransdell wrote: J-MO = Jean-Marc Orliaguet JR = Joe Ransdell Jean-Marc says: [J-MO] I don't really understand the subtle distinctions that you are making between "direct" and "unmediated" and between "indirect" and "mediated", and in what way they contribute to a better philosophical

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2006-01-24 Thread Benjamin Udell
d as a sign by a mind, but a directly experienced thing? The sign is the thing which directly presents itself as representing something else, the sign's object. If no experienced things _could_ do that, then semiosis could never take actual form. This doesn't affect the fact that when we look

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2006-01-24 Thread Joseph Ransdell
J-MO = Jean-Marc Orliaguet JR = Joe Ransdell Jean-Marc says: [J-MO] I don't really understand the subtle distinctions that you are making between "direct" and "unmediated" and between "indirect" and "mediated", and in what way they contribute to a better philosophical understanding.. REPLY: [

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2006-01-24 Thread gnusystems
Joe, you suggested that [[ Peirce thinks of the persuasional factor as omnipresent in the inquiry process, beginning from the persuasion the object of perception exerts upon the experimenting or observing inquirer in his or her interaction with the object, which is then transmitted as a convict

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2006-01-24 Thread Drs.W.T.M. Berendsen
worthwhile he was excellent. Also with dog cookies. Kind regards, Wilfred -Oorspronkelijk bericht- Van: csthorne [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Verzonden: maandag 23 januari 2006 3:48 Aan: Peirce Discussion Forum Onderwerp: [peirce-l] Re: NEW ELEMENTS (KAINA STOICHEIA) available at Arisbe I am

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2006-01-23 Thread Jean-Marc Orliaguet
Clark Goble wrote: On Jan 23, 2006, at 4:57 PM, Jean-Marc Orliaguet wrote: Such a sentence as "whether or not direct knowledge is to be construed as unmediated" is disturbingly convoluted, especially as Peirce does not seem to introduce such distinctions himself. Sometimes he uses in a s

[peirce-l] Re: NEW ELEMENTS (KAINA STOICHEIA) available at Arisbe

2006-01-23 Thread Clark Goble
On Jan 23, 2006, at 4:57 PM, Jean-Marc Orliaguet wrote: Such a sentence as "whether or not direct knowledge is to be construed as unmediated" is disturbingly convoluted, especially as Peirce does not seem to introduce such distinctions himself. Sometimes he uses in a same sentence "direct"

[peirce-l] Re: NEW ELEMENTS (KAINA STOICHEIA) available at Arisbe

2006-01-23 Thread Jean-Marc Orliaguet
Joseph Ransdell wrote: Jean-Marc says: Of course, not to restart an old debate... I am curious about how the following lines are going to be interpreted: "We have a direct knowledge of real objects in every experiential reaction, whether of /Perception/ or of /Exertion/ (the one theoretical, t

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2006-01-23 Thread Joseph Ransdell
In response to my remark that: [[ Overall, I find the rationale of it baffling. It is not a complete paper of course, but even considered as only an intended preface to a book on the logic of mathematics, it is seems puzzlingly incomplete, at the least. Why does he start off with the theory vs.

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2006-01-22 Thread csthorne
re signs can not operate, even not exist, without living beings. To create them, alter them and for the interpretation of them. Kind regards, Wilfred _ Van: Jim Piat [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Verzonden: maandag 23 januari 2006 0:49 Aan: Peirce Discussion Forum Onderwer

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2006-01-22 Thread Drs.W.T.M. Berendsen
create them, alter them and for the interpretation of them.   Kind regards,   Wilfred   Van: Jim Piat [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Verzonden: maandag 23 januari 2006 0:49 Aan: Peirce Discussion Forum Onderwerp: [peirce-l] Re: NEW ELEMENTS (KAINA STOICHEIA) available at Arisbe   Dear

[peirce-l] Re: NEW ELEMENTS (KAINA STOICHEIA) available at Arisbe

2006-01-22 Thread Jim Piat
Joe writes (about New Elements): [[ Overall, I find the rationale of it baffling. It is not a complete paper of course, but even considered as only an intended preface to a book on the logic of mathematics, it is seems puzzlingly incomplete, at the least. Why does he start off with the the

[peirce-l] Re: NEW ELEMENTS (KAINA STOICHEIA) available at Arisbe

2006-01-22 Thread Jim Piat
Of course, not to restart an old debate... I am curious about how the following lines are going to be interpreted: "We have a direct knowledge of real objects in every experiential reaction, whether of /Perception/ or of /Exertion/ (the one theoretical, the other practical). These are direct

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2006-01-22 Thread Jim Piat
ssues he raises.  And I'd be interested too!   Thanks for the further comments.  I am looking forward to the Kaina discussion.   Jim Piat - Original Message - From: Gary Richmond To: Peirce Discussion Forum Sent: Sunday, January 22, 2006 1:58 PM Subject: [peirce

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2006-01-22 Thread gnusystems
Joe writes (about New Elements): [[ Overall, I find the rationale of it baffling. It is not a complete paper of course, but even considered as only an intended preface to a book on the logic of mathematics, it is seems puzzlingly incomplete, at the least. Why does he start off with the theory

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2006-01-22 Thread Joseph Ransdell
Jean-Marc says: Of course, not to restart an old debate... I am curious about how the following lines are going to be interpreted: "We have a direct knowledge of real objects in every experiential reaction, whether of /Perception/ or of /Exertion/ (the one theoretical, the other practical). These

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2006-01-22 Thread Gary Richmond
Jim,  list, I've moved my comments from the Research & Learning vs Teaching to this thread since most of the text I've quoted below is from the New Elements. Responding to a Peirce snippet I copied, viz. In order to convince ourselves that all learning is virtually reasoning, we have only to r

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2006-01-22 Thread Jean-Marc Orliaguet
Joseph Ransdell wrote: I finally got a transcription of the New Elements manuscript of 1904 up at Arisbe. I thought we might try figuring out what is going on there. If you have a copy of Volume 2 of the Essential Peirce you already have a copy of it, but it is helpful to have it in digitize

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2006-01-21 Thread Jim Piat
Anyway, I would like to get clear on what is going on it in detail, step by step, and will begin by making some comments on it later today, after those of you who are interested in this have a chance to download a working copy of it from Arisbe. Joe Ransdell Dear Joe, Looking forward to y