Gary, List,
Please thank Fernando for his suggestion. The entire volume seems to
have some unique perspectives on Peirce; I will try to obtain a copy
of the entire book.
I found the Sfendoni-Mentzou piece very thought provoking. I note he
thanks Nicolaidis (spelled Nikolaidis), the source of the original
paper that started this thread, who was a colleague at the same
institution. I'm still wondering how widely these views were held.
Thanks!
Mike
On 5/15/2017 11:24 AM, Gary Richmond
wrote:
Mike, Jon, List,
I asked Fernando Zalamea--my go-to scholar for questions
regarding mathematical continutiy--and, while he noted that
physics is not at all his field, he responded by writing (in
part):
FZ: I imagine
that the Proceedings of the Harvard Sesquicentennial
dedicated to Peirce’s Physics may have clues.
[note: for
the Proceedings, see; http://catalogue.wellcomelibrary.org/search~S8?/aCharles+S.+Peirce+Sesquicentennial+International+Congress+%281989+%3A+Harvard+University%29/acharles+s+peirce+sesquicentennial+international+congress+++++1989+harvard+university/-3,-1,0,B/browse
FZ: On the
other hand, as far as I know, relational logic is
far from quantum logic. This second trend originates
with von Neumann's Continuous Geometries and
orthomodular lattices, something that, I think, Peirce
could not envision. (emphasis added)
I have not yet read the paper you pointed to Mike (I
intend to), but although I have sometimes thought otherwise
(based principally on a readong of the 1898 lecture series,
published as Reasoning and the Logic of Things), I
would at present temd tp agree with Zalamea here.
And I agree with the whole of Jon Awbrey's post leading
to his conclusion:
JA: I think the
full import of [Peirce's] on-theoretic and
pragmatic-semiotic
approaches to scientific inquiry is a task for the future
to
work
out.
Best,
Gary R
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