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

2014-11-16 Thread Gary Fuhrman
Mara, thanks for this! Damasio is one of the neuroscientists who have developed in great detail our understanding of perception as part of a functional cycle. He’s not the only one, of course; I’ve cited several others in my book Turning Signs, especially in Chapter 9

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

2014-11-16 Thread Gary Fuhrman
Mara, that’s a very good question you’ve raised. I’ll insert my responses below. From: Mara Woods [mailto:mara.wo...@gmail.com] Sent: 14-Nov-14 3:45 PM All, In section 5.2, Stjernfelt brings up the “Adaptation to Rationality” hypothesis in conjunction with the issue of logical

[PEIRCE-L] Triadic Philosophy - Don't Triangles Move Forward?

2014-11-16 Thread Stephen C. Rose
We think sequentially by necessity. Whoops. Thought gone. But seriously, I wonder if triangles do not move. In other words they cannot be fixed. Does that mean that no product of triadic thinking can be fixed. Probably so. Generals are fixed. Maybe in the CSP way of communal consensus and whatever

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

2014-11-16 Thread John Collier
Well, Edwina, I am not going to list specks of evidence, you need to read the literature. I got it primarily through studying distributed cognition, especially to teach it for several years in our cognitive science programme. Key words are distributed social knowledge, scaffolding, and

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

2014-11-16 Thread Edwina Taborsky
John - I think we are talking about two different issues. No-one is arguing that our knowledge base (distributed cognition) is not developed within societal constraints and focus, but at the same time - to claim that our knowledge is ONLY societal and thus deductive and cannot be questioned,

[PEIRCE-L] Sung asserts: the simplest category in the category theory is the commutative triangle.

2014-11-16 Thread Jerry LR Chandler
On Nov 16, 2014, at 6:01 AM, Sungchul Ji wrote: Hi, I just learned that the simplest category in the category theory is the commutative triangle. The next simple one would be the commutative square Sung: After posting examples (perhaps hundreds?) of your beliefs about category theory,

Re: [PEIRCE-L] Sung asserts: the simplest category in the category theory is the commutative triangle.

2014-11-16 Thread Sungchul Ji
Dear Jerry, Thanks for your informative comments. Yes. I agree, I have a long journey into the open and evolving world of category theory. As you know I have been using commutative triangles for the past couple of years on these lists, without calling them by that name, I just referred to them

[PEIRCE-L] Synechism quote correction

2014-11-16 Thread Benjamin Udell
Jon, list, Somebody recently brought to my attention off-list a typo in the synechism quote that I sent on November 10, 2014. prescribing what sort of hypotheses are lit to be entertained and examined should instead be: prescribing what sort of hypotheses are fit to be entertained and

[PEIRCE-L] Triadic Philosophy - Arisbe

2014-11-16 Thread Stephen C. Rose
(Arisbe) Charles Sanders Peirce: ARISBE: THE PEIRCE GATEWAY: Home Page of the International Peirce Community http://buff.ly/1BG3CMM I do what I can to alert Twitter folk to Peirce. I remember an excellent introductory statement listing all of his impacts. But when I took a look just now I could

Re: [PEIRCE-L] Triadic Philosophy - Arisbe

2014-11-16 Thread Benjamin Udell
Maybe you're talking about Joe Ransdell's FAQ Who Is Charles Peirce? http://www.iupui.edu/~arisbe/faqs/whoiscsp.HTM http://www.iupui.edu/%7Earisbe/faqs/whoiscsp.HTM Best, Ben On 11/16/2014 8:59 PM, Stephen C. Rose wrote: (Arisbe) Charles Sanders Peirce: ARISBE: THE PEIRCE GATEWAY: Home Page