John, Thanks for the Eisele pdf. I did like this ms fragment very much:
Further, "It is not so much the history of science as it is the history of sound scientific thinking which I am considering" [Peirce MS 12801. -- It seems to come down to: never consider the textual production of a scientist only in itself, but also look at the reality the text tries to explain. Auke > Op 2 augustus 2020 om 14:13 schreef "John F. Sowa" <s...@bestweb.net>: > > > Carolyn Eisele wrote an excellent 9-page article about a topic we have > been discussing recently: Mathematical methodology in the thought of > Charles S. Peirce, > https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/0315086082901276/pdf > > On page 5 of that article, she made a point that I believe is > fundamental: "to understand pragmatism in a Peircean sense, one must > approach the concept in terms of Peirce's scientific methodology -- in terms > of the mathematical procedure that he called Theorematic Reasoning." > > Apparently that topic was controversial, because she mentioned a "New > York philosopher" who "challenged" it. For the complete paragraph, see the > attached Eisele82.png. > > 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 no subject, and with the sole line "UNSubscribe > PEIRCE-L" in the BODY of the message. More at > http://www.cspeirce.com/peirce-l/peirce-l.htm . > ► PEIRCE-L is owned by The PEIRCE GROUP; moderated by Gary Richmond; and > co-managed by him and Ben Udell. >
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