Dear Edwina and Margaretha, Having acknowledged similarities between Popper and Peirce, we must reckon with the fact that Popper is a proud nominalist, whereas Peirce is a thorough-going realist. There are many implications, not the least of which is that Popper dismisses truth in the long run; he says that all we’ve got is truth in a certain context (like a chemistry lab, or an atomic accelerator). Popper is afraid that a realist commitment to truth = closedness, or truth-with-an-agenda. Unlike Peirce, Popper could not negotiate generality or continuity.
Martin W. Kettelhut, PhD > On 7 Oct 2021, at 8:11 AM, Edwina Taborsky <tabor...@primus.ca> wrote: > > 2] I have used Popper to compare with Peirce - I think that Popper's Third > World has strong comparisons with Peirce's Thirdness….he even sets it up as > analogous with the biological realm of knowledge. [See his Objective > Knowledge]. And I think that Popper's emphasis on openness, as in The Open > Society, where he rejects historicism and destiny for an essentially open and > unknown complexity of interactions -- is similar to Peirce. That is, Popper > accepts chance and reason as correlates [Firstness and Thirdness] in the > development of a society. Responding to On Thu 07/10/21 9:48 AM , Margaretha Hendrickx mahe3...@gmail.com <mailto:mahe3...@gmail.com> sent: List, How many of you are working on -- or interested in -- studying the connection between the philosophy of Karl Popper and Charles Peirce?
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