Thanks for including that link to my blog, Ben. I was just about to post another link, as Gary Richmond suggested offline that (like Michael Shapiro) I might cross-post here when my blog posts have something to say about Peirce. Today’s post is relatively long and only a little of it refers explicitly to Peirce, so I’ll just put the link here:
http://gnusystems.ca/wp/index.php/2015/09/20/creation-and-transformation/ This post by my alter ego ‘gnox’ implicitly takes up “Peirce's idea that all of a mind's action is a continuum of inference” and extends the idea of “a mind” beyond the individual human mind. Gary f. } The method of trial and error is applied not only by Einstein but, in a more dogmatic fashion, by the amoeba also. [Popper] { <http://gnusystems.ca/wp/> http://gnusystems.ca/wp/ }{ Turning Signs gateway From: Benjamin Udell [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: 20-Sep-15 16:57 List, Quite a few people did visit my blog. There's a statement in it that I've corrected. I said that, in the pervasive absence of such heuristic merits as nontriviality, natural simplicity, etc., no mind would bother with inference. It might be better say more narrowly that no mind would bother with _reasoning_, in the sense of explicit, consciously weighed inference. I wasn't thinking with Peirce's exemplary broadness. Inference without those heuristic merits would amount to remembering (... ∴ p, ∴ p, ∴ p, ∴ ...), free-associative or at any rate wild supposition, and so on; one might call them degenerate cases of inference but, in their seasons, they have their merits, and arguably need to be taken into account for Peirce's idea that all of a mind's action is a continuum of inference. A pretty wild play of the imagination is, it cannot be doubted, an inevitable and probably even a useful prelude to science proper. — Peirce, CP 1.235 (1902). Snifter clink to Gary Furhman http://gnusystems.ca/wp/index.php/2015/09/15/wild-science/ Best, Ben
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