Abduction: Peirce continues to think unto this very day. Why, he might even cherry-pick something he thought as a teenager and say that sounds right. Or he might have a meeting with Wittgenstein and the two of them would toast something together. Maybe minimalism which wuld be an act of penitence on Pierce's I think it is fatuous to argue over whether early or late takes precedence any more than that getting Peirce right is more than a game. He didn't get himself right, as evidenced by his method which suggests an inability, utterly reasonable, to assume that he has anything down firmly. What then is the value in these locutions? They are essentially matters of social import. They are a sort of doing the dozens. Nothing wrong with that. Consensus seems not on the menu though it is among the thoughts he seems to have favored. I would only add I can easily see why he needed three to express the universal but I think his language was a mite more Trinitarian than he might have ultimately thought, but then again he may by now have changed his mind.
Books http://buff.ly/15GfdqU On Mon, Nov 7, 2016 at 3:03 PM, Clark Goble <cl...@lextek.com> wrote: > > On Nov 7, 2016, at 12:40 PM, Jon Alan Schmidt <jonalanschm...@gmail.com> > wrote: > > The long quote from "A Guess at the Riddle" dates to 1887-1888. As I > indicated in my correction, W 8:22 is from 1890. CP 5.90-92 is from the > 1903 Harvard Lectures on Pragmatism. > > As I have said before, I advocate giving the year with any citation of > Peirce, since I think that "the dating of the passages becomes pretty > important" no matter what the subject matter. It is always helpful to > situate his remarks with respect to the evolution of his thought over time. > > > Right, I guess what seems significant is that how Hegelian he is seems to > change somewhat in the 1890’s. I’ve not read up on the details of what > changes when. But there does appear to be a difference from Guess to his > Harvard Lectures. Indeed as I recall his Harvard lectures shocked people by > how Hegelian he was at times. (With Hegelianism falling out of favor around > that era) > > > > > ----------------------------- > 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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