Dear John, list: Would anyone care to share their thoughts on what is meant by Absolute Chance?
Thanks in advance, Jerry R On Mon, Dec 5, 2016 at 11:31 AM, Clark Goble <cl...@lextek.com> wrote: > > On Dec 5, 2016, at 7:05 AM, John F Sowa <s...@bestweb.net> wrote: > > On 11/29/2016 2:57 PM, Clark Goble wrote: > > Treating thirdness as something real in the universe independent > of what any particular person thinks about it is key. > > > That is not a new point. Scientists have always assumed that the > laws of nature are "really real". > > > It’s a major point but not an universal one. Especially among physicists > Feynman’s loose adoption of a kind of instrumentalism was influential. So > it wasn’t just Mach or certain aspects of the positivists. Of course most > physicists who haven’t studied any philosophy end up with an incoherent > mess of views on the nature of physical laws. Sometimes a realist, > sometimes an idealist, sometimes a Feynman like denial that anything > matters but calculating. At least in my experience with physicists. > (Chemists are somewhat different due to a more practical field) > > However I think what Peirce did differently was in thinking of the laws of > physics in terms of thirdness. I don’t think most others - even those who > were realists about law - put them in quite that formulation. (If only > because few thought of things in those terms) > > > > > ----------------------------- > 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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