At 01:44 AM 9/19/2014, Jon wrote:
Howard, Ben, All,
Peirce, unlike Hertz, did not stop at a correspondence theory of
truth. And that has made all the difference.
HP: Hertz also did not stop thinking about the correspondence, or
what physics now calls the epistemic cut.
"Outside consciousness there lies the cold and alien world of actual
things. Between the two stretches the narrow borderland of the
senses. No communication between the two worlds is possible except
across this narrow strip. For a proper understanding of ourselves and
the world it is of the utmost importance that this borderland be explored."
[Keynote address, Imperial Palace, Berlin, 1891]
Peirce has certainly explored this borderland, but I am still not
clear what "has made all the difference." Phaneroscopy is on only one
side of the border and doesn't get us across the narrow strip.
Howard
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