And of course the iconoclast, obedient to the First Commandment, will add
"and none" while adhering to these sage rules..

*@stephencrose <https://twitter.com/stephencrose>*

On Mon, Oct 13, 2014 at 11:26 AM, Edwina Taborsky <tabor...@primus.ca>
wrote:

>  Thanks, Stephen. [ I had expected to be 'flung to the wolves' for my
> views]. That quote on synechism, from Essential Peirce, vol 2, p 2 is
> indeed relevant. As he continued, "All men who resemble you and are in
> analogous circumstances are, in a measure, yourself, though not quite in
> the same way in which your neighbors are you".
>
> That is, we are both necessarily individuals (Secondness) and also,
> members of a vast collective (Thirdness). We have a duty to live within
> both modes. Not just one mode of isolation of the individual self. Nor one
> mode of denying that self and submerging it within the utopianism of
> 'communal submission'.  But both; it's not an easy task.
>
> Edwina
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> *From:* Stephen C. Rose <stever...@gmail.com>
> *To:* Edwina Taborsky <tabor...@primus.ca>
> *Cc:* Peirce List <peirce-l@list.iupui.edu>
> *Sent:* Monday, October 13, 2014 11:06 AM
> *Subject:* Re: [PEIRCE-L] Re: PEIRCE-L] "More Pragmatism, Not Less"
>
> This is not a blog it's a list. You are not a lone voice. Peirce himself
> said. "Nor must any synechist say, 'I am altogether myself, and not at
> all you.'  If you embrace synechism, you must abjure this  metaphysics of
> wickedness. In the first place, your neighbors are, in a measure,
> yourself, and in far greater measure than, without deep studies in
> psychology,  you would believe. Really, the selfhood you like to
> attribute to yourself is, for the most part, the vulgarist delusion of vani
> ty."
>
>  *@stephencrose <https://twitter.com/stephencrose>*
>
> On Mon, Oct 13, 2014 at 10:43 AM, Edwina Taborsky <tabor...@primus.ca>
> wrote:
>
>>  Well, I don't know if this blog is the place to debate the values of
>> war versus no-war, and I know I'm almost a lone voice among a blog that
>> seems heavily slanted towards 'the left' ideologies which to me, are always
>> utopian rather than pragmatic, but I'm certainly not a pacifist. That's
>> because I support the rule of law versus the rule of thugs.
>>
>> Phyllis, I don't think that your dandelion analogy can really be compared
>> with fascist and fundamentalist ideologies. You seem to be saying that
>> rather than confronting them and denying their legitimacy, one should 'just
>> leave them alone'. The problem is, that this moves to the Rule of Thugs.
>> Dandelions can be far more powerful and invasive than grass. Now, does
>> grass have any 'rights to life'? Or is it just 'whichever is more
>> powerful'?
>>
>> The interesting thing is that nature doesn't function by 'whichever is
>> more powerful. Naturally, those dandelions would be eaten by browsing
>> herbivores, supplying a certain amount of protein and other minerals.
>>
>> I feel that fundamentalist ideologies - if they keep their ideologies and
>> actions confined to themselves - well, I'd agree with 'who cares'. But when
>> their ideology includes as a basic axiom, the actual necessity to kill
>> others, to enforce their beliefs and way of life on others - well, I think
>> that the State and humanity - have the duty, moral as well as legal,  to
>> step in and stop them. Otherwise - it's 'rule by thugs'.
>>
>> The Taliban and their fundamentalist ideology were far greater in power
>> than the people of Afghanistan. Should such a regime - with its stoning of
>> women, its refusal to allow education, be allowed to do this?
>>
>> Should ISIS - with its crucifixions, beheadings, stonings, mass
>> slaughter, openly stated agenda of taking over villages and towns and
>> forcing people into fundamentalism - should it be allowed to continue to do
>> this to people who simply don't have the strength to defend themselves?
>>
>> I'm sure you've heard of the term of 'Just War' . There's a nice book by
>> Jean Bethke Elshtain (who also wrote a superb book on 'Sovereignty: God,
>> State and Self). The book is 'Just War Against Terror: The burden of
>> American power in a violent world'.
>>
>> She refers to Camus' The Plague, where people refuse to see evil; they
>> have simply banished the word 'evil ' from their vocabularies. (Heh, rather
>> similar to renaming terrorism to 'man-caused disasters'; or 'work-place
>> violence' or calling ISIS 'just JV players'). But evil exists and we can't
>> hide from it.
>>
>> Taking over a population by ruthless force, dictated by an ideology of
>> biological or religious or ideological racism, i.e., exclusionary  - and
>> repressing by force, expelling, murdering anyone who does not submit to
>> this ideology...I don't think that pacifism is the moral response to such
>> thuggish behaviour.
>>
>> Edwina
>>
>>  ----- Original Message -----
>> *From:* Phyllis Chiasson <ath...@olympus.net>
>> *To:* Gary Richmond <gary.richm...@gmail.com> ; Eugene Halton
>> <eugene.w.halto...@nd.edu>
>> *Cc:* Peirce List <peirce-l@list.iupui.edu>
>> *Sent:* Monday, October 13, 2014 2:19 AM
>> *Subject:* [PEIRCE-L] Re: PEIRCE-L] "More Pragmatism, Not Less"
>>
>>
>> Main
>>
>> Benign neglect was a policy proposed in 1969 by Daniel Patrick Moynihan,
>> who was at the time on Nixon's White House Staff as an urban affairs
>> adviser.
>>
>> I see the problem of wars in the way I see the problem of dandelions. I
>> admit that I feel a sort of visceral hatred of dandelions. I want them gone
>> from my life. Several years ago I began a campaign to extract them from the
>> yard. I was not allowed to use chemicals, as neither my husband nor i
>> support the use of chemical pesticides or herbicides.
>>
>> So, I bought a nifty little dandelion extractor and began pulling them
>> out by the roots. For a short time (very short considering all my efforts)
>> I had a dandelion free yard. Then POW! A plethora of dandelions. I tried a
>> new approach, a weed burner, guaranteed to work. And it did work, but not
>> as I wanted; weed burning resulted in even more dandelions than before. I
>> tried an all organic herbicide, but without any luck at all. We vetoed
>> salt, as that would kill the grass too.
>>
>> It was around that time of the salt discussion that Hal pointed out to me
>> that the empty lot next door to us was practically dandelion free. Someone
>> comes around every year with a big mower to keep the grass down and that is
>> the sum total of gardening work on that lot.
>>
>> Of course, it did not require a degree in horticulture for me to
>> understand what i had been doing by means of my exertions. I had been
>> preparing the soil for to receive and sprout ever more of the very things
>> that i didn't want. (Yes, i know dandelions have herbal and medicinal uses;
>> I have even read Ray Bradbury's book, Dandelion Wine, several times.)
>>
>> However, I still think there is a big connection between my attempts to
>> eradicate dandelions and our country's attempt to eradicate radical Muslim
>> organizations. We are just preparing the ground for more dandelions, only
>> in this case, dandelions with bombs and rocket launchers. So, to me, the
>> most problematic effect of our military/industrial/congressional complex is
>> that they just keep tilling the soil to encourage more and more dandelions
>> to take root.
>>
>> Based on intentions measured against results, which I see as the essence
>> of pragmatism, we are not really eradicating ISIS; we are recruiting for
>> them. We have prepared the soil by previous wars and skirmishes and every
>> time a drone hit produces collateral damage we are blowing fluffy dandelion
>> seeds to take root all over the world.
>>
>> I don't have THE solution; but I do think it resides in Retroduction, not
>> just in pragmatism.
>>
>>
>> Gary Richmond <gary.richm...@gmail.com> wrote:
>>  Gene Halton wrote:
>>
>>  I find the both the letter to the New York Times from Joseph Esposito
>> and Gary R's claim that Brooks misused Mumford uninformed and misguided and
>> yet you continue, Gene, that "Mumford's allowance of the emotions was
>> closer to Peirce's outlook, and in that sense Brooks's understanding of
>> "pragmatism," whatever he meant by using the term, was shallow." So
>> which is it Gene? Did Joseph and I perhaps get a sense of Brooks'
>> shallowness as you termed it? Our "take" was certainly more about Brooks
>> than Mumford.
>>
>>
>> I thought I made it quite clear that I have been "generally" quite
>> sympathetic to Mumford's arguments (one of the reasons why I posted the
>> group of quotations of his which I did), but, again, I found, as did you,
>> "Brooks's understanding of 'pragmatism' . . . .shallow." So Joseph and I
>> agree with you at least in that.
>>
>>
>> It is possible that when I read your book *Bereft of Reason* a few years
>> ago I may have concentrated too heavily on such lines as the one you just
>> quoted regarding the USA's involved in the WW2 that "Perhaps American
>> involvement did lead to the military-industrial-academic complex and
>> McCarthyism after the war. . ."
>>
>>
>> Now, am I so "uniformed and misguided" if indeed our involvement in WW2
>> perhaps led, as you wrote, "to the military-industrial-academic complex"
>> (Truman was strongly advised to leave out the third term of that diabolical
>> triad, btw, which was NOT "academic" but "Congressional")? And what have we
>> now in American and, indeed, global 'culture' but precisely the
>> military-industrial-congressional complex writ large: the *military-global
>> corporate--governments-corrupted-by-power-and-money complex*? And the
>> women and children still suffer, as Camus wrote. Thanks for all those "good
>> wars," those "wars to end all wars," etc., etc., etc., etc.
>>
>>
>> Your modifying the last passage from your book which I quoted above with
>> "perhaps" suggests to me that even you too may have some reservations about
>> how throwing millions of American military lives into the WW2 fodder (and
>> the Korean War fodder, and the Vietnam War fodder, and the Iraq wars
>> fodder, and the Afghanistan fodder, and, and, and--who knows what the
>> future may bring in the way of human fodder offered to the war machine?),
>> that these wars may have proved historically, at least, *problematic,*
>> especially given the fact that those resolved nothing, and that we have
>> been and are still slaughtering children and young men and women and old
>> men and women in battle, soldiers and civilians send to there deaths for. .
>> .. what values?--to what end? (certainly in this sense at least, I
>> completely agree with Dewey and Tori Alexander, most recently, that there
>> is a case to be made for pacifism).
>>
>>
>> So to my way of thinking--after all the Brooks' nonsense is cleared
>> away--it's not just a black and white issue that Mumford was completely
>> correct and Dewey completely wrong, say. And, btw, I consider myself
>> considerably less "uniformed and misguided" than you present me, and Joseph
>> Esposito, whom I greatly respect, as being. I doubt that you or anyone has
>> all the answers to the question of war and peace.
>>
>>
>> Best,
>>
>>
>> Gary
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>  *Gary Richmond*
>> *Philosophy and Critical Thinking*
>> *Communication Studies*
>> *LaGuardia College of the City University of New York*
>> *C 745*
>> *718 482-5690 <718%20482-5690>*
>>
>> On Sun, Oct 12, 2014 at 7:03 PM, Eugene Halton <eugene.w.halto...@nd.edu>
>> wrote:
>>
>>>  I read David Brooks' piece in the New York Times, and have had a long
>>> term interest in pragmatism and in the work of Lewis Mumford. I actually
>>> discuss Mumford's essay described by Brooks in my book,* Bereft of
>>> Reason*, on page 147 forward.
>>>
>>> I find the both the letter to the New York Times from Joseph Esposito
>>> and Gary R's claim that Brooks misused Mumford uninformed and misguided,
>>> and Helmut's claim that Mumford's position is close to ISIS to be amazingly
>>> thoughtless, 180 degrees from the truth, missing Mumford's point in this
>>> context being described that living for immediate pleasure gratification
>>> regardless of purpose is wrong. In my opinion Mumford's position regarding
>>> intervention against Nazi Germany was correct and Dewey's at the time
>>> before World War II was incorrect. Mumford's allowance of the emotions was
>>> closer to Peirce's outlook, and in that sense Brooks's understanding of
>>> "pragmatism," whatever he meant by using the term, was shallow. And the
>>> term Mumford was using was "pragmatic liberalism."
>>>
>>> Ironically, by the very same logic, Mumford came to condemn the United
>>> States' use of the atomic bomb at the end of World War II, and became a
>>> critic of the US military megamachine and political megamachine, and turned
>>> against the Vietnam War by 1965-6, one year after he had received the
>>> Presidential Medal of Freedom from President Lyndon Johnson. I would like
>>> to see what conservative David Brooks would do with that.
>>>             I have quoted some excerpts from my chapter in *Bereft of
>>> Reason*, on "Lewis Mumford's Organic World-View" below.
>>>
>>> Gene
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>  excerpt from *Bereft of Reason*: "The second confrontation with Dewey
>>> and pragmatism occurred on the eve of World War Two, and concerned what
>>> Mumford termed "The Corruption of Liberalism." Mumford believed that
>>> fascism would not listen to reasonable talk and could not be appeased, and
>>> urged strong measures as early as 1935 against Hitler and in support of
>>> European nations which might be attacked by Hitler. By 1938 he urged in *The
>>> New Republic* that the United States "Strike first against fascism; and
>>> strike hard, but strike."  His militant position was widely attacked by
>>> the left, and he lost a number of friends in the process, including Frank
>>> Lloyd Wright, Van Wyck Brooks, Charles Beard, and Malcolm Cowley among
>>> others.
>>>
>>> To give an idea of the opinions and climate of the prewar debate, just
>>> consider the titles of commentaries published in the March, 1939 issue of 
>>> *Common
>>> Sense* on the question "If War Comes--Shall We Participate or be
>>> Neutral?":
>>>
>>> Bertrand Russell, "The Case for U.S. Neutrality;" Max Lerner, "`Economic
>>> Force' May Be Enough;" Charles A. Beard, "America Cannot 'Save' Europe;"
>>> John T. Flynn, "Nothing Less Than a Crime;" and Harry Elmer Barnes, "A War
>>> for 'Tory Finance'?".  Dewey's contribution was titled, "No Matter What
>>> Happens--Stay Out," and it could not have been more opposed to Mumford's
>>> piece, "Fascism is Worse than War." Mumford believed that the inability of
>>> the left to see that rational persuasion and appeasement were inadequate to
>>> stem Hitler's Hell-bound ambition indicated a corruption in the tradition
>>> of what Mumford called "pragmatic liberalism."  The fatal error of
>>> pragmatic liberalism was its gutless intellectualism, its endorsement of
>>> emotional neutrality as a basis for objectivity, which he characterized as
>>> "the dread of the emotions." He illustrated why the emotions ought to play
>>> a significant part in rational decisions with an example of encountering a
>>> poisonous snake: "If one meets a poisonous snake on one's path, two things
>>> are important for a *rational* reaction. One is to identify it, and not
>>> make the error of assuming that a copperhead is a harmless adder. The other
>>> is to have a prompt emotion of fear, if the snake *is* poisonous; for
>>> fear starts the flow of adren[al]in into the blood-stream, and that will
>>> not merely put the organism as a whole on the alert, but it will give it
>>> the extra strength needed either to run away or to attack. Merely to look
>>> at the snake abstractedly, without identifying it and without sensing
>>> danger and experiencing fear, may lead to the highly irrational step of
>>> permitting the snake to draw near without being on one's guard against his
>>> bite." Emotions, as this example makes clear, are not the opposite of the
>>> rational in the conduct of life, and therefore should not be neutralized in
>>> order for rational judgments to be made. The emotion of fear in this
>>> example is a non-rational inference which provides a means for feeling
>>> one's way in a problematic situation to a rational reaction before the
>>> rationale becomes conscious...
>>>
>>> ... In my opinion Dewey's concept that the "context of situation" should
>>> provide the ground for social inquiries remains an important antidote to
>>> empty formalism and blind empiricism. Yet the clearest evidence of its
>>> shortcomings in the practice of life was Dewey's belief on the eve of World
>>> War II that the United States should stay out of the impending war against
>>> Nazi Germany, because it did not involve the American situation. As he put
>>> it in 1939, "If we but made up our minds that it is not inevitable, and if
>>> we now set ourselves deliberately to seeing that no matter what happens we
>>> stay out, we shall save this country from the greatest social catastrophe
>>> that could overtake us, the destruction of all the foundations upon which
>>> to erect a socialized democracy."  Dewey criticized the idea that
>>> American involvement was "inevitable" while simultaneously assuming such
>>> participation would somehow produce inevitable results.
>>>
>>> Perhaps American involvement did lead to the
>>> military-industrial-academic complex and McCarthyism after the war--though
>>> the former would likely have emerged in any case--but Dewey's localism
>>> blinded him to the fact that Western and World civilization were being
>>> subjected to a barbaric assault, an assault from fascism and from within,
>>> which would not listen to verbal reasoning. By ignoring the question of
>>> civilization as a legitimate broader context of the situation and the
>>> possibility that the unreasonable forces unleashed in Hitler's totalitarian
>>> ambitions could not be avoided indefinitely, Dewey was unable to see the
>>> larger unfolding dynamic of the twentieth-century, and was led to a false
>>> conclusion concerning American intervention which only the brute facts of
>>> Pearl Harbor could change.
>>>
>>> Was Mumford the reactionary that the pre-war left attacked him for
>>> being? Consider that by the end of World War two Mumford was attacking the
>>> allies' adoption of Nazi saturation bombing, both in the firebombing of
>>> Dresden and in the nuclear bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki. He decried
>>> the fall of military standards and limits in the deliberate targeting of
>>> civilians. Mumford was among the earliest proponents of nuclear
>>> disarmament, having written an essay on the nuclear bomb within a month of
>>> the bombing of Hiroshima and a book within a year, as well as helping to
>>> organize the first nuclear disarmament movement. He was an early critic of
>>> the Vietnam War, expressing opinions publicly in 1965 which again cost him
>>> friendships. Mumford's last scholarly book, *The Pentagon of Power*
>>> (1970) was, among other things, a fierce attack on the antidemocratic
>>> military-industrial-academic establishment."
>>>
>>> Eugene Halton, *Bereft of Reason*, University of Chicago Press, 1995,
>>> pp147f.
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> ---
>>>
>>>
>>>    On Sun, Oct 12, 2014 at 12:10 PM, Helmut Raulien <h.raul...@gmx.de>
>>> wrote:
>>>
>>>>   My post was a bit polemic, because I was mad at Mumfords neglection
>>>> of the value of life and that he called that "universalism". And I was
>>>> indeed thinking of the nazis. I think, a culture that is not based on the
>>>> value of life is not universalist, but the opposite: Particularist.
>>>> Universalism for me is eg. Kants categorical imperative, and Kants other
>>>> imperative, that humans (so also human life) should be treated as aims, not
>>>> as means. And scientists like Kohlberg and pragmatists like Peirce were
>>>> scolars of Kant. So my conclusion was, that, when someone is attacking
>>>> scientists and pragmatists, his "universalism" is in fact particularism.
>>>> And his concept of "culture" too, because for him, culture is not based on
>>>> the value of life, but vice versa. But I was refering to a quote out of its
>>>> context, maybe.
>>>> Best,
>>>> Helmut
>>>>
>>>>  "Gary Richmond" <gary.richm...@gmail.com>
>>>>
>>>>   Ben, Helmut, Stephen, list,
>>>>
>>>> I certainly won't defend Brooks because I think he misuses Mumford. and
>>>> even in the choice of this early material taken out of context, to support
>>>> his argument *contra* Pragmatism in the article cited. I have always
>>>> had a generally positive take on Mumford's ideas, although I don't believe
>>>> I have ever read an entire book by him.
>>>>
>>>> This evening as I browsed through a selection of quotations from his
>>>> books I found more which resonated positively with me than did not--which
>>>> is not to say that I agree with him in each of the ideas expressed. Still,
>>>> some of his ideas do not seem opposed to philosophical pragmatism, although
>>>> his critical purposes aren't much attuned to it, at least as I see it at
>>>> the moment.
>>>> See: http://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Lewis_Mumford
>>>>
>>>> Best,
>>>>
>>>> Gary
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> *Gary Richmond*
>>>> *Philosophy and Critical Thinking*
>>>> *Communication Studies*
>>>> *LaGuardia College of the City University of New York*
>>>> *C 745*
>>>> *718 482-5690 <718%20482-5690>*
>>>>
>>>> On Sat, Oct 11, 2014 at 8:13 PM, Benjamin Udell <bud...@nyc.rr.com>
>>>> wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>>  Helmut, list,
>>>>>
>>>>> I seldom am inclined to defend Brooks. I haven't read Mumford,
>>>>> although I have somewhere his book on Melville that I meant to read. For
>>>>> what it's worth, I'll point out that Mumford wrote the Brooks-quoted 
>>>>> remark
>>>>> in 1940, when the horrors of WWII had not fully unfolded yet. Maybe he
>>>>> never backed down from it, I don't know. In a box somewhere I have another
>>>>> book that I meant to read, about how in the Nazi death camps sheer
>>>>> survival, fighting just to live, became a kind of heroism. The higher
>>>>> ideals ought to serve life, not tell it that it's full of crap, only to
>>>>> replace the crap with other crap, a.k.a. brainwashing and Mobilization
>>>>> (quick flash of Pink Floyd's marching hammers). "They want politics and
>>>>> think it will save them. At best, it gives direction to their numbed
>>>>> desires. But there is no politics but the manipulation of power through
>>>>> language. Thus the latter's constant debasement." - Gilbert Sorrentino in 
>>>>> _
>>>>> Splendide-Hôtel_.
>>>>>
>>>>> Best, Ben
>>>>>
>>>>> On 10/11/2014 5:41 PM, Helmut Raulien wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>>  Hi! I think, that Mumford, to whom Brooks refers, is quite close to
>>>>> the Isis: ""Life is not worth fighting for: bare life is worthless.
>>>>> Justice is worth fighting for, order is worth fighting for, culture ... 
>>>>> .is
>>>>> worth fighting for: These universal principles and values give purpose and
>>>>> direction to human life." That could be from an islamist hate-preaching:
>>>>> Your life is worthless, so be a suicide bomber and go to universalist(?)
>>>>> heaven.  Brooks and Mumford are moral zealots and relativists who project
>>>>> that on the people who have deserved it the least. They intuitively know
>>>>> that they havent understood anything, the least the concept of
>>>>> universalism, and bark  against those who have, because they are jealous.
>>>>>
>>>>> *Gesendet:* Samstag, 11. Oktober 2014 um 20:38 Uhr
>>>>> *Von:* "Gary Richmond" <gary.richm...@gmail.com>
>>>>> <http://gary.richm...@gmail.com>
>>>>> *An:* Peirce-L <peirce-l@list.iupui.edu>
>>>>> <http://peirce-l@list.iupui.edu>
>>>>> *Betreff:* [PEIRCE-L] "More Pragmatism, Not Less"
>>>>>  List,
>>>>>
>>>>> Joseph Esposito responded to David Brooks' Oct.3 New York Times
>>>>> column, "The Problem with Pragmatism," with this letter to the editor
>>>>> today.
>>>>> http://www.nytimes.com/2014/10/11/opinion/more-pragmatism-not-less.html?ref=opinion
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> To the Editor:
>>>>>
>>>>> David Brooks paints an all too convenient caricature of American
>>>>> pragmatism ("The Problem With Pragmatism
>>>>> <http://www.nytimes.com/2014/10/03/opinion/david-brooks-the-problem-with-pragmatism.html?module=Search&mabReward=relbias%3Ar%2C%7B%221%22%3A%22RI%3A10%22%7D>,"
>>>>> column, Oct. 3). Even the slightest reading of Charles Peirce, William
>>>>> James, John Dewey and Sidney Hook will reveal pragmatists who were
>>>>> passionate about values as well as the means of realizing them in enduring
>>>>> democratic social institutions.
>>>>>
>>>>> The problem the United States confronts in the Middle East is not
>>>>> paralysis or doubt but the adherence to many years of contradictory and
>>>>> self-defeating values and policies that will make matters worse. What is
>>>>> needed is more pragmatism, not less.
>>>>>
>>>>> JOSEPH L. ESPOSITO
>>>>> Tucson, Oct. 4, 2014
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> *The writer is a lawyer, philosopher and former student of Sidney
>>>>> Hook.*
>>>>>
>>>>> Brooks
>>>>> ' article,
>>>>> http://www.nytimes.com/2014/10/03/opinion/david-brooks-the-problem-with-pragmatism.html?module=Search&mabReward=relbias%3Ar%2C%7B%221%22%3A%22RI%3A10%22%7D
>>>>> which quotes heavily from some of Lewis Mumford's critiques of Liberalism,
>>>>> may have a different kind of Pragmatism in mind than that which Esposito
>>>>> points to, perhaps what Susan Haack in *Evidence and Inquiry* terms
>>>>> "vulgar Pragmatism"
>>>>> (182-202) by which she means especially Richard Rorty's version.
>>>>>
>>>>>  Apropos of the theme Brooks takes up, near the end of the chapter
>>>>> "Vulgar Pragmatism: An Unedifying Prospect," she quotes Peirce as writing:
>>>>> ". . . if I should ever tackle that excessively difficult problem, 'What 
>>>>> is
>>>>> for the true interest of society?' I should feel that I stood in need of a
>>>>> great deal of help from the science of legitimate inferences. . ." (
>>>>> op. cit.
>>>>> 201). Here, as everywhere, Peirce shows himself to be essentially a
>>>>> logician.
>>>>>
>>>>>  Best,
>>>>>
>>>>>  Gary
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>
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