How can there be "convergent discourse" if there are no commonalities?
On 10/04/2017 11:56 AM, Nick Thompson wrote: > Peirce does not presume that there ARE any communalities. He presumes only > that if there ARE any communalities, they are what truth would be. > On 10/04/2017 09:55 AM, Nick Thompson wrote: >> /*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. -- ☣ 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
