Jerry C, list:
I’d like to point out another interesting observation. Peirce says, “he identifies God and Nature, but does not mean by Nature what is ordinarily meant.” What he means by *ordinarily meant by Nature* is purposively vague. Would you say the meaning is decided? Best, Jerry Rhee On Sun, Oct 30, 2016 at 9:37 AM, <jerry_lr_chand...@me.com> wrote: > List: > > On Oct 30, 2016, at 12:30 AM, Jerry Rhee <jerryr...@gmail.com> wrote: > > Spinoza’s chief work, the “Ethics”, is an exposition of the idea of the > absolute, with a monistic theory of the correspondence between mind and > matter, and applications to the philosophy of living. It is an *excessively > abstruse doctrine, much misunderstood*, and too complicated for brief > exposition > > > see: http://www.pucsp.br/pragmatismo/dowloads/eip_15/ > 15th_imp_shannon_dea_peirce-and_spinozas_pragmaticist_methaphysics.pdf > > for a very nice paper on CSP wrt Spinoza. > > One can amuse oneself by playing with the question: > > To what extend did Spinoza’s effort to express meta-physics in terms of > Euclid’s geometrical mathematics, excite CSP to express his meta-physics in > terms of continuous mathematics and graph theory (as a dualism between > physical thought and chemical thought, or as a dualism between idealism and > realism)? > > Cheers > > jerry > > > > from url cited above > > As well, Peirce was the uncredited author of the entry on Spinozism for > the Century Dictionary (1891).8 Here it is in its entirety: > > Spinozism (spi-no’ zizm), n. [< Spinoza (see def.) + -ism.] The > metaphysical doctrine of Baruch (afterward Benedict) de Spinoza > (1632-1677), a Spanish Jew, born at Amsterdam. Spinoza’s chief work, the > “Ethics,” is an exposition of the idea of the absolute, with a monistic > theory of the correspondence between mind and matter, and applications to > the philosophy of living. It is an excessively abstruse doctrine, much > misunderstood, and too complicated for brief exposition. The style of the > book, an imitation of Euclid’s “Elements,” is calculated to repel the > mathematician and logician, and to carry the attention of the ordinary > reader away from the real meaning, while conveying a completely false > notion of the mode of thinking. Yet, while the form is pseudomathematical, > the thought itself is truly mathematical. The main principle is, indeed, an > anticipation in a generalized form of the modern geometrical conception of > the absolute, especially as this appears in the hyperbolic geometry, where > the point and plane manifolds have a correspondence similar to that between > Spinoza’s > worlds of extension and thought. Spinoza is described as a pantheist; he > identifies > God and Nature, but does not mean by Nature what is ordinarily meant. Some > sayings of Spinoza are frequently quoted in literature. One of these is omnis > determinatio est negatio, “all specification involves exclusion”; another > is that matters must be considered sub specie æternitatis, “under their > essential aspects.” Spinozist (spi-no’ zist), n. [< Spinoza + -ist.] A > follower of Spinoza. > > Spinozistic (spi-no-zis’ tik), a. [< Spinozist + -ic.] Of, pertaining to, > or characteristic of Spinoza or his followers: as, the Spinozistic school; > Spinozistic pantheism.9 > >
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