Thomas, Ben, List
I've been working through CP III and CP IV to get some order in the way Peirce develops transitivity in relation to continuity, all for the purposes of getting my own thesis on the go. Things are a bit financially straitened for me, making it rather hard to maintain concentration on CSP in between dealing with letters of demand, getting the electricity switched back on, and so forth. However, the suggestion that transitivity is the basis for Otherness (if xRy and yRx, then xRz) does make some sense, although my own concern is not so much transitivity in general but the transitivity of sequences (especially generational sequence) in the logical construal of the subject-matter of social inquiry. I'll be following this thread with great interest.
Cheers
Arnold
On 3/6/06, Thomas Riese <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Ben, Wilfred,
as a logician/mathematician you virtually have two knobs in front of you.
One is
labeled: wild dreams. On the other you read: self-control. As a
logician/mathematician you turn them _both_ to "maximum power". That's the
trick, if there is any trick. Artistry then is a matter of degree of
course.
Same in mathematics as everywhere else.
I won't be able to write anything till next weekend since I have to work
from
day to night on something totally unrelated. Not exactly bread and butter,
but
cooking; and my customers won't be satisfied if I served them proofs
together
with dormitive virtue in breakfast rolls:-)
I'll come back to the things I promised to address, especially probability
and
what provability and completeness is in the Peircean framework. I haven't
even
mentioned yet what my main evidence is, but I think I can give something
that
should be very usable in terms of Peircean scholarship.
Please be patient with me,
Th.
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