I propose that any commonalities between experiences, are due to common physiology. And that means that were I and a mouse to get together and define some scientific experiments we *both* could perform independently (say, jumping on a see-saw or pushing a kibble lever), then the mouse would have a fundamentally different experience than I would have. If experience is somehow "truth", then there are 2 truths, mine and the mouse's. That's pluralism.
On 10/04/2017 09:55 AM, Nick Thompson wrote: > Well, unless you understand Peirce as a fallibilist, I have described him > wrongly or you have misunderstood me. To Peirce, there is only one kind of > stuff ... experience. He would not understand what on earth you meant by > "out there", unless you were clear that you meant only that some experiences > have a character of "out there ness" which you are obligated to define. > Peirce starts with his pragmatic understanding of meaning as the conequences > of an conception to experience, and by experience he means scientific > experience ... almost "experiments". He deploys this pragmatic > understanding of meaning on the word truth and ends up with the truth as that > stable opinion toward which we all strive. */But nothing in that definition > of truth implies necessarily that the truth is ever known. Hence Peirce’s > fallibilism is at least as profound as your own. /*Imagining that there is a > truth of the matter has the [pragmatic] effect of forcing us all into a > convergent discourse and > this effect is for Peirce the central meaning of the word truth. He has > great contempt for styles and fashions of criticism precisely because there > is no commitment to convergence in such discourses. Screw pluralism. > > > > I think you ARE a Peircean. -- ☣ gⅼеɳ ============================================================ FRIAM Applied Complexity Group listserv Meets Fridays 9a-11:30 at cafe at St. John's College to unsubscribe http://redfish.com/mailman/listinfo/friam_redfish.com FRIAM-COMIC http://friam-comic.blogspot.com/ by Dr. Strangelove
