John, list,
Thanks for bringing attention to my mistake. I ought to have said one big thought that is unlike any other thing, for how, then, can it be an ultimate aim and be like similar things? ______ "To speak truth, and be skillful with bow and arrow" – so seemed it alike pleasing and hard to the people from whom comes my name – the name which is alike pleasing and hard to me A thousand goals have there been hitherto, for a thousand peoples have there been. Only the fetter for the thousand necks is still lacking; there is lacking the one goal. As yet humanity hath not a goal. But pray tell me, my brethren, if a goal of humanity be still lacking, is there not also still lacking- humanity itself?- Thus spake Zarathustra. I return to the Gods. Can we suppose any of them to be squint-eyed, or even to have a cast in the eye? Have they any warts? Or are they free from imperfections? Let us grant you that. Are they all alike in the face? For if they are many, then one must necessarily be more beautiful than another, and then there must be some Deity not absolutely most beautiful. Or if their faces are all alike, there would be an Academy in heaven; for if one God does not differ from another, there is no possibility of knowing or distinguishing them. With best wishes, Jerry R On Thu, Jan 4, 2018 at 2:37 PM, John F Sowa <s...@bestweb.net> wrote: > On 1/3/2018 3:17 PM, Jerry Rhee wrote: > >> [JFS] I like to quote a comment that Hilary Putnam made about Aristotle: >>> >>> "Whenever I become clearer about a subject, I find that Aristotle has >>> also become clearer." >>> >>> I would make that same comment about Peirce. >>> >>> [JR] Then is it obvious to you that Peirce and Aristotle (among others) >> are talking about one great big thing that has relation to several similar >> things? >> > > No. They had many big thoughts. But their terminology and ways > of thinking were different from each other and from currently > popular paradigms. It requires quite a bit of hard thought to > learn and appreciate their ways of thinking. > > John > > > ----------------------------- > 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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