Re: [PEIRCE-L] Natural Propositions, Chapter 5 : Cognition as biologic

2014-11-14 Thread Mara Woods
Very interesting, Gary F. Damasio's view of the mapping of body states are already loaded with interpretation and, as you suggest, underlie self-control. First, they are indexes of particular physiological states that can be influenced by further action in the environment. For example, blood sugar

[PEIRCE-L] Natural Propositions, Chapter 5 : Cognition as biologic

2014-11-14 Thread Gary Fuhrman
Lists, Two quotations, one from NP and one from Damasio’s Self Comes to Mind, which I think make an interesting juxtaposition: Minds are a subtle, flowing combination of actual images and recalled images, in ever-changing proportions. The mind’s images tend to be logically interrelated,

[PEIRCE-L] Natural Propositions, Chapter 5: Universes of Discourse and Umwelt theory

2014-11-14 Thread Mara Woods
All, In section 5.2, Stjernfelt brings up the “Adaptation to Rationality” hypothesis in conjunction with the issue of "logical constants" so problematic in Hurford's account. The logical constants problem is mostly a consequence of Hurford's limited view that reference to a dynamic object require

RE: [PEIRCE-L] Continuity, Generality, Infinity, Law, Synechism, etc.

2014-11-14 Thread Michael DeLaurentis
Jerry – All due respect, but my post concerned the distinction Kirsti claimed to find, not anything in your post. So I don’t see the relevance.. From: Jerry LR Chandler [mailto:jerry_lr_chand...@me.com] Sent: Friday, November 14, 2014 12:33 PM To: Peirce List Cc: Michael DeLaurentis; John N.

Re: [PEIRCE-L] Continuity, Generality, Infinity, Law, Synechism, etc.

2014-11-14 Thread Jerry LR Chandler
List, Michael, Kirsti, John: On Nov 12, 2014, at 11:47 AM, Michael DeLaurentis wrote: I don’t find any such distinction, implicit or explicit, in Peirce’s late writings. Motivated by your assertions, I re-read 4.172 and later paragraphs, searching for distinctions between CSP logic and set

[PEIRCE-L] NEW TOPIC: ORDINARY PEOPLE

2014-11-14 Thread Gary Moore
I find all this tediously obscure with a highly in-bred self-congratulatory yet pointless circularity. How does an ordinary person use language? That is the ultimate and always in the end the final criterion of any verbal usage. You all have exactly the same “starting point” that you can never ev