Ben ~ Thanks for posting this item. I particularly focused on this reference to emotion: "an affective satisfaction which one may get with an abductive inference and which helps motivate one to abductive inference." I believe it is important to distinguish logic from the motive force(s) that propels it. Otherwise "logic" and "emotion" are not sighs that can be independently manipulated in this (or other) analyses. Other forms of life may use "logic," but not be motivated by emotion.
After looking at the dictionary definition of instinct, it seems that pain, pleasure and other "instincts" can be traced back to dna: structures of the body including nerves in our central nervous system. Instincts are triggered by things taking place in the "environment" -- i.e., outside of the body. The instinct to have sex, for example, is explained by thousands of nerve endings that make the act pleasurable for both parties. Take those nerve endings away, and you have a species that doesn't procreate rapidly enough to avoid extinction. (That is presumably why those nerves evolved in the first place.) When Peirce referred to the emotion produced by music, I don't believe he was referring to the noise that our senses detect, but the feelings of nostalgia, comfort, etc. triggered by a particular combination of noises. They harken to some past experience that has emotional value to the listener. Those feelings are idiosyncratic, not hard-wired into all humans. Otherwise, everyone would listen to the same songs. Probably reggae ;) I started reading a dissertation on Peirce's views of emotion, instinct, etc. The author (a psychologist) has high regard for Peirce, but cautions against accepting things he write as the final word on a topic, because Peirce would often revisit the same issue a few years later and develop a somewhat different analysis, or sometimes use different terms to describe the same thing. For those with an interest, see the title below: http://scholarcommons.usf.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1133&context=etd Regards, Tom Wyrick The dissertation title: Peirce on the passions: The role of instinct, emotion, and sentiment in inquiry and action > On Jul 16, 2015, at 10:35 AM, Benjamin Udell <bud...@nyc.rr.com> wrote: > > an affective satisfaction which one may get with an abductive inference and > which helps motivate one to abductive inference
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