Edwina, John, List,
I have read the two books by Karl Popper: "The open society and its enemies" (Thank you for recommending me!), and, as far as I am competent, completely agree with Popper. He is against "historicism", and both refutes Platon (ideal primal state), and Hegel (ideal final state). About Marx, he approves his analysis of the situation at Marx´ time, but refutes his prophecies, and therefore his claim, that there "scienttific"ly is a necessity in history. History is just stories. I wonder, whether Popper knew Peirce, because I see some parallelity.
Best, Helmut
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John, list
This clarifies that neither the primal state nor the ‘final state’ [ of there be such a state] is ‘perfect definiteness’. Instead, both are unsettled’. How could it be otherwise? Without such indefiniteness, no adaptation or evolution could occur, and the laws of physics would lead to inevitable dissipation of energy/matter. To prevent this- and thus enable ever more complex forms, ‘indefiniteness’ on both sides, is the answer.
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Thanks for the chapter. I particularly liked your inclusion off the Peircean quote;
Get rid, thoughtful Reader, of the Okhamistic prejudice of political partisanship that in thought, in being, and in development the indefinite is due to a degeneration from a primal state of perfect definiteness. The truth is rather on the side of the Scholastic realists that the unsettled is the primal state, and that definiteness and determinateness, the two poles of settledness, are, in the large, approximations, developmentally, epistemologically, and metaphysically. (CP 6.348)
This clarifies that neither the primal state nor the ‘final state’ [ of there be such a state] is ‘perfect definiteness’. Instead, both are unsettled’. How could it be otherwise? Without such indefiniteness, no adaptation or evolution could occur, and the laws of physics would lead to inevitable dissipation of energy/matter. To prevent this- and thus enable ever more complex forms, ‘indefiniteness’ on both sides, is the answer.
Edwina.
On Jan 27, 2024, at 11:27 PM, John F Sowa <s...@bestweb.net> wrote:
<Section7.pdf>_ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _I finally finished the article on phaneroscopy and sent it off to the publisher. The final Section 7 is attached. It shows that Peirce's writings in the last decade of his life are at the forefront of ongoing research in the cognitive sciences (philosophy, psychology, linguistics, artificial intelligence, neuroscience, and anthropology).At the end, I include links to a few other articles that go into more detail about current issues and the importance of Peirce's insights.John
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