John, Helmut, John Sowa wrote:
The [dualities] that are complementary, not contradictory, can be the basis for a synthesis. That's true of many of them. But there is no synthesis of open-mind vs closed-mind. A commonality that characterizes Frege, Russell, Carnap, Quine, and the movements of behaviorism and logical positivism is that they all blocked the way of inquiry. Well said! I couldn't agree more. I also highly recommend your article "Signs, processes, and language games." http://jfsowa.com/pubs/signproc.pdf Best, Gary *Gary Richmond* *Philosophy and Critical Thinking* *Communication Studies* *LaGuardia College of the City University of New York* *718 482-5690* On Sat, Jun 2, 2018 at 5:07 PM, John F Sowa <[email protected]> wrote: > On 6/2/2018 3:45 PM, Helmut Raulien wrote: > >> some of these dualities (e.g.: Nominalism/universalism, >> semantics/semiotics, linguistic turn/cognitive turn, >> empiricism/metaphysics) are not necessarily antinomies, but may be regarded >> for theses/antitheses, that may merge to syntheses, dialectically. Isnt >> that so? >> > > The ones that are complementary, not contradictory, can be the > basis for a synthesis. That's true of many of them. But there > is no synthesis of open-mind vs closed-mind. > > A commonality that characterizes Frege, Russell, Carnap, Quine, > and the movements of behaviorism and logical positivism is that > they all blocked the way of inquiry. Each one said, in effect, > > I do not know how to explore the following topics. Therefore, > thou shalt not ask any question or think any thought about them. > > I admit that I learned a lot about logic from them, but I also > learned that their research guidance is toxic to creativity. > > I have a deadline to finish, so I won't be able to say more now. > But the article "Signs, processes, and language games" summarizes > the issues: http://jfsowa.com/pubs/signproc.pdf > > 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 > [email protected] . To UNSUBSCRIBE, send a message not to PEIRCE-L > but to [email protected] 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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