Gene, List: Your comments are well-taken. I did not mean to imply that the growth of knowledge is the *only *manifestation of the growth of reasonableness, although I now can see how it came across that way.
Thanks, Jon Alan Schmidt - Olathe, Kansas, USA Professional Engineer, Amateur Philosopher, Lutheran Layman www.LinkedIn.com/in/JonAlanSchmidt - twitter.com/JonAlanSchmidt On Sat, Apr 8, 2017 at 5:30 PM, Eugene Halton <eugene.w.halto...@nd.edu> wrote: > John Sowa: “But every kind of Thirdness must be learned by abduction. > Observation can only detect post hoc. Propter hoc is an abduction. An > infant observes patterns in the parents' babbling, imitates the babbling, > and discovers that certain patterns bring rewards.” > > > > The expectations for communicative dialogical babbling are already > instinctively and musically embedded in the subcortical affirmative mind of > the infant. The dialogue facilitates the observational process rather than > inaugurates it through observation. We are born to be wild intersocial, > communicative abductors! The dialogue continues over time as the infant’s > upper brain starts to come online, becoming more vocally-gesturally > engaged, eventuating in both the birth of symboling and a rebirthing of the > toddler as a symbolizer. > > > > Jon Alan Schmidt: “this raises the question of what Peirce meant by > "God's purpose." As I mentioned in the other thread, I take it to be the > *summum > bonum*--the "development of Reason," which is the growth of knowledge > about both God and the universe that He has created and continues to create > (CP 1.615; 1903).” > > > > Surely the development of reasonableness is far more than the mere growth > of knowledge/knowledge about, or being a kind of spectator of creation. > Those are ideas from a civilization that has divorced itself from the > living spontaneity, as though true living would have as its ultimate goal > to become a know-it-all. True living involves participation in creation > through the primacy of affirmative mind, in bodying forth and learning, to > which knowing is at best secondary. That is how I take Peirce’s statements > that “the continual increase of the embodiment of the idea-potentiality is > the *summum bonum*,” one involving a “reasonableness energizing in the > universe.” > > > > Gene Halton >
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