John Collier, list: You said: I agree with Edwina that all three elements are involved in the pragmatic maxim.
Do you mind stating where, in the pragmatic maxim, it says this? I'm not questioning whether it is or not. I'm just not sure to what you are referring. Thank you, Jerry R On Sat, Oct 15, 2016 at 11:26 AM, John F Sowa <s...@bestweb.net> wrote: > On 10/15/2016 9:26 AM, Edwina Taborsky wrote: > >> Since I am rejecting a metaphysical origin [God] as the origin >> of the universe, I stick with the Big Bang for now. >> > > I agree with Heraclitus and my namesake, John the Evangelist: > > Heraclitus wrote about the logos — translated variously as word, > speech, or reason: "all things (panta) come into being according to > this logos." The Greek concept of logos, which can also be translated > account, reckoning, or even computation is broad enough to encompass > all the abstractions of mathematics, metaphysics, and the sciences. > > A few centuries after Heraclitus, John the Evangelist wrote "In the > beginning was the logos, and the logos was with God, and God was the > logos. It was in the beginning with God. All things (panta) came into > being through it, and without it nothing that has come to be came into > being" (1,1-3). John and Heraclitus used the same words logos, panta, > and gignomai (come to be). What they meant by those words, however, > has been a matter of debate for millennia. > > As a realist, I believe that the logos exists. To relate it to modern > science and to Peirce, I believe that the logos is the truth that is > the goal of unrestricted inquiry by unlimited generations of "scientific > intelligence" by which Peirce meant any intelligence that is capable of > learning from experience. > > John > > > ----------------------------- > PEIRCE-L subscribers: Click on "Reply List" or "Reply All" to REPLY ON > PEIRCE-L to this message. PEIRCE-L posts should go to > peirce-L@list.iupui.edu . To UNSUBSCRIBE, send a message not to PEIRCE-L > but to l...@list.iupui.edu with the line "UNSubscribe PEIRCE-L" in the > BODY of the message. More at http://www.cspeirce.com/peirce-l/peirce-l.htm > . > > > > > >
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