On 6/2/2018 11:45 PM, Gary Richmond 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.
Thanks. But I thought of another answer to the question about
thesis/antithesis/synthesis:
The synthesis is always metaphysical -- transcendental, as Kant
called it, or a kind of Thirdness, as Peirce would say.
But Carnap wrote a manifesto that denounced metaphysics. For
him and his colleagues, all versions of metaphysics are rejected.
Therefore, they would reject any proposed synthesis you gave them.
I also received an offline note that asked for more info about
“strong similarities between ... Peirce and Whitehead."
Short answer: You can find many references by Googling
"peirce whitehead". For example, see the article by
Nubiola: http://www.unav.es/users/PeirceWhitehead.html
John
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