Re: [PEIRCE-L] Re: Peirce's Theory of Thinking

2016-09-17 Thread Jon Alan Schmidt
Gary F., List: GF: That rules out pantheism, but not, I think, panentheism, which (as I understand it) holds that Nature is immanent in God, not the other way round. Hmm, my admittedly limited understanding of panentheism is that it affirms God to be somehow both immanent and transcendant; so

RE: [PEIRCE-L] Re: Peirce's Theory of Thinking

2016-09-17 Thread gnox
Jon, thanks for this, and for your later post, which clears things up considerably. Just a couple of responses: JS: In R 843, he states that the NA pertains to "the Being whose Attributes are, in the main, those usually ascribed to Him, Omniscience, Omnipotence, Infinite Benignity, a Being

Re: [PEIRCE-L] Re: Peirce's Theory of Thinking

2016-09-16 Thread Jon Alan Schmidt
Gary F., List: GF: My responses to your four questions and the rest of your post are inserted into it below. Thanks, I appreciate the feedback. GF: It could be those, but it’s also possible that the reference is not that specific; Peirce might even be referring to Pragmatism, or to his

RE: [PEIRCE-L] Re: Peirce's Theory of Thinking

2016-09-16 Thread gnox
Jon, My responses to your four questions and the rest of your post are inserted into it below. Gary f. From: Jon Alan Schmidt [mailto:jonalanschm...@gmail.com] Sent: 8-Sep-16 21:40 List: Returning to the four questions in my post that started this thread … 1. To what

Re: [PEIRCE-L] Re: Peirce's Theory of Thinking

2016-09-09 Thread Gary Richmond
Jon, list, Jon, I fully understand why you want to return to the subject of the original post in this thread, your four questions. Still, I've been following this thread rather closely and wanted to comment on some recent exchanges in it concerning the distinction between reality and existence

Re: Re: [PEIRCE-L] Re: Peirce's Theory of Thinking

2016-09-09 Thread Jerry Rhee
Helmust, list: I don't think you know what it is you disagree with. Best, Jerry R On Fri, Sep 9, 2016 at 2:10 PM, Helmut Raulien wrote: > Jerry, list, > On first glance I completely disagree. "First glance", because my > contradiction may contain false suppositions about

Aw: Re: [PEIRCE-L] Re: Peirce's Theory of Thinking

2016-09-09 Thread Helmut Raulien
Jerry, list, On first glance I completely disagree. "First glance", because my contradiction may contain false suppositions about what your opinion might be like. Religion, I think, should always be connected with reason, otherwise it becomes dangerous. Dangerous as well is to look for

Re: [PEIRCE-L] Re: Peirce's Theory of Thinking

2016-09-08 Thread Jerry Rhee
Jon, list: They are all consistent. What is analogical reasoning but saying one thing in terms of another? essence and esse Subject and predicate Father and Son Non-being and being Agent and patient First and Second ens originarium and ens necessarium theologico-physico name and